A worker is to perform work for you for seven straight days. In return for his work, you will pay him 1/7th of a bar of gold per day. The worker requires a daily payment of 1/7th of the bar of gold. What and where are the fewest number of cuts to the bar of gold that will allow you to pay him 1/7th each day?
im going to make a picture to help explain this assume () is 1/7 of the gold bar and / is a cut in the bar () / ()() / ()()()() A B C 1st day is A 2nd day is B 3rd day is A&B 4th day is C 5th day is A&C 6th day is B&C 7th day is A&B&C hope this helps -j (:
