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Cut the "biscuit" into 16 congruent pieces. The sections are not necessarily rectilinear.
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Abigail’s little brother Carson found a big rectangular cake in the fridge and cut a small rectangular piece out of it.
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Now Abigail needs to find a way to cut the remaining cake into two pieces of equal area with only one straight cut. How could she do that? The removed piece can be of any size or orientation.

Is it possible to cut this figure, called "camel"

  • a) along the grid lines;

  • b) not necessarily along the grid lines;

into \(3\) parts, which you can use to build a square?
(We give you several copies to facilitate drawing)
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Cut an arbitrary triangle into parts that can be used to build a triangle that is symmetrical to the original triangle with respect to some straight line (the pieces cannot be inverted, they can only be rotated on the plane).