I Cut, You Choose

One method that children use to fairly divide a piece of cake or candy is to have one person do the cutting and the other do the choosing. This encourages the person doing the cutting to cut the pieces as evenly as possible so that the person doing the choosing does not get a larger piece. How would this method work for three people? Four? Five? Can you develop a pattern or algorithm that would provide a method for any number of people?


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