Cutting The Paper
Logic
Level
3
Suppose that I cut a rectangular piece of paper in straight lines of equal length, parallel to one of the edges. If it took me \(s\) seconds to cut a paper into \(k\) pieces, how long will it take me to cut another paper into \(4k\) pieces at the same rate?
Details and Assumptions:
A cut is defined to be the line from one edge to another.
Papers are clean and fresh as new!
\(k \geq 2\) is a positive integer, and \(s\) is a positive real number.
by
Michael Huang