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Show two ways three people can share a 5 segment chewy fruit worm

User Cmart
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call them a, b, c

I will put a number after each letter to indicate how many segments each got
one possible arrangment is
a,1
b,1
c,3


another way is this
a,1
b,2
c,2

or even
a,2
b,3
c,0

there are many ways, I've given yu three
User FatDaemon
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Let's say you have John, Mary, and Ben. Let's say they have ONE chewy worm left, and they want to split it, and the worm has 5 segments, Green, Yellow, Red, Blue, and Purple.

Now, it can go like this:
CATEGORY 1: UNEVENLY
Way 1:
John gets the Purple and Blue
Mary gets the Red
Ben gets the Yellow and Green

Way 2:
John gets the Purple
Mary gets the Blue, Red, and Yellow
Ben gets the Green

Catagory 2: Evenly
Way 1:
You can cut the 5 segments each into 3 even pieces, this way there are 15 total. Then divide up the 15 by giving 5 each to John, Mary, and Ben.


~Hope this helps!
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