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Thanks! I managed to do it using my formula above as the starting point. Basically it involved untangling the trig functions into an...

Someone brought really nice big cookies which might have skewed the experiment and also people are unpredictable as they don’t always...

For real solutions, the longest chord can't be larger than the sum of the other three. Meanwhile, thank you @bob012345 =Bob V., you...

It turned out that only 7 of the 9 people came and I bought only one cheesecake platter, which had twelve slices, two of each kind. That...

I guess they all do! No, never mind. There are conditions. One can’t even make a quadrilateral with just any four sides and some...

I did not see this problem until last night but I solved it at least numerically by using the chord formula and knowing the sum of the...

Here is what I got.

Not necessarily. This is referring to the quote “I think it’s reasonable to assume each variety is equally desired by people”. That...

I could buy just one platter and call each person offering them a choice among the available varieties. The first person can choose...

I believe one can think of this problem like the birthday problem (in a group of ##n## people, what are the odds that at least ##m##...

This is a real life problem. The party is tomorrow. In my OP I stated that there are 12 slices of 6 varieties on each platter. That is...

There are nine people at a party. Dessert is a variety of cheesecake slices on two platters. Each platter contains 12 slices of 6...

Just because I can do it in my head does not make it good practice for a student in my opinion. If it were in my class I would expect...

When forces are involved. Yes. At least in my head.

We routinely tell student to use free body diagrams so I don’t think it wise to argue not to on PF.