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You must cut a birthday cake into exactly 8 pieces, but your're only allowed to make three straight cuts, and you can't move pieces of the cake as you cut. How can you do this? Plz help

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Well, my first thought, if you look to the cake from above:
- make a big + with two cuts
- slice the cake, holding knife parallel to the table
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