Question

How many cuts do you need to cut a stick into:

6 parts?
11 parts?
x parts?

Answer 1

5,10,1.

Explanation:

I'm not sure about the last one but I tried. hope this helped.

Answer 2

5 cuts, 10 cuts, and for the last one it is an equation.

x parts - 1 = amount of cuts for x parts.

Explanation:

I cannot upload an image but I can represent a half image/text to show how to find out the number of cuts.

Here is a "stick" that has been cut into 6 parts.

_ _ _ _ _ _

If you count the number of cuts in the "stick", you can tell it is 5 cuts, which is one less than 6. Let's try cutting a stick into 11 parts now.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

As you can see, there are 10 cuts in the "stick". Therefore, you can use the equation, x-1 = amount of cuts, where x represents the number of parts the stick has been cut into.

The final answer:

5 cuts

10 cuts

x-1