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What is the minimum cuts
needed to cut a circle into 8
equal parts?

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What is the minimum cuts needed to cut a circle into 8 equal parts ?

A : 4 cuts

What is the minimum cuts needed to cut a circle into 8 equal parts?-example-1
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Answer:

4 cuts.

Explanation:

When we have a circle, each cut (supposing the curst are in the exact middle) which give use two haves. So, if we cut one time, we'll have two equal parts, if we cut a second time, we'll have 4 equal parts, a third time, we'll get us 6 equal parts, and if we cut a fourth time, we'll have 8 equal parts.

So, whenever we have this kind of problem dividing circles, we just say that each cut in the exact middle equals two equal haves, so if we have 4 cuts, we just multiply them by 2, 4(2)=8. Therefore, we have 8 equal parts.

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