How many pieces of cake can you create if you have a cake and make 4 straight cuts?

1. Do you cut the cake?

2. How many pieces of
cake can you create if
you have a cake and
make 4 straight cuts?

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4. With a quick test of ambition.
Do you aim high or just where
everyone else aims?

5. 80% of people
have 8 pieces

6. This is “normal”

7. 11% of people
have 11 pieces*
*Or a number close to this

8. This is “performing”

9. 7% of people
have 14 pieces*
*Or a number close to this

10. This is “innovative”
3 cuts the same as everyone else Then a slice horizontally to
double the number of pieces

11. 2% of people
have more

12. They don’t think horizontally,
They think without boundaries.
Who says all cakes are round?
Who says you can’t move the
pieces after you have cut them?

13. So with my “E”
shaped cake tin!

14. Cut
#1
Cut
#2
Cut
#3
1…4…10…22

15. Cut number 4
makes 46 pieces

16. What problem are
Available
on
Amazon
Paperback
Kindle
iPad
you trying to solve?

17. “E” is for Extra-ordinary.
Cakes are for eating.
©James Sandfield, 2017