Question

Wyatt and Laura want to split a bag of candy, and decide to use the divider-chooser method. The bag contains 100 Snickers, 100 Milky Ways, and 100 Reese's, which Wyatt values at $3, $1, and $4 respectively.

Required:
If Wyatt is the divider, find a possible division that is consistent with his value system.

Answer 1

Set A: 50 Snickers, 50 Milky Ways, 50 Reese's

Set B: 50 Snickers, 50 Milky Ways, 50 Reese's

Explanation:

If Wyatt is the divider, both shares must have the same value, according to his value system, so that no matter what share Laura chooses, he would be satisfied.

The simplest way to do it is to just give each set half of the candies of each type:

Set A: 50 Snickers, 50 Milky Ways, 50 Reese's.

Set B: 50 Snickers, 50 Milky Ways, 50 Reese's.