Today Puzzle #534
Puzzle No. 534鈥� Tuesday 30 July
A bar of chocolate contains three rows of eight squares. How many breaks are needed to separate the bar into 24 squares of chocolate?
Today’s #PuzzleForToday has been set by the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield
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The number of pieces of chocolate increases by one with each break. Starting with the single 3 x8 piece of chocolate we see that 23 breaks are needed to finish with the 24 squares of chocolate.
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