Today Puzzle #582
Puzzle No. 582鈥� Friday 4 October
Including themselves, there are 5 teachers in Susan & Bobby's maths department. To celebrate World Teacher Day tomorrow on Saturday, students have brought in four cakes for the department (2 chocolate, 1 Victoria sponge and 1 cheesecake). If 2 teachers do not have any cake, how much chocolate cake can the teachers eating cake have?
Today's #PuzzleForToday is set by Bobby Seagull and fellow maths teacher Susan Okereke, who are both co-hosts of the Maths Appeal podcast.
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3 teachers will have cake. There are 2 chocolate cakes. So 2 shared among 3 is 2/3 each.
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