Three friends are dividing up a pizza that has not been pre sliced, but only wish to make two straight line cuts, dividing the pie into three even pieces. If the center of the pizza is on the origin of a graph, the radius is six inches, and the pizza is to be divided using only vertical cuts, how far from the origin must the vertical cuts be made?

(In reply to solution by goFish)

When I convert from a unit radius to a 6-inch radius I then get about 1.58959 inches in close agreement with your answer.  What was your method?

Posted by Richard on 2005-12-30 16:05:09