COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
ALGORITHMS
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Question
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Jake cut the bread into triangles.
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Jake cut the bread forcefully into triangles.
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Jake used his right hand to cut the bread into triangles. He applied pressure and cut diagonally.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A diagonal cut maximizes the number of bites with the least crust, as demonstrated in this breakdown from Popular Mechanics, with a mathematical formula that proved it.
Detailed explanation-2: -If your bread is square, and if each side is 4 inches long, you have 16 inches of crust. Cut that bread down the middle, and you get 8 inches of crust-free surface. Cut that same bread diagonally, Calter calculates, and you end up with almost 11 inches of crustless surface. That’s a substantial increase.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cutting the sandwich into triangles gives the cheese more room to run out the middle before you’ve gotten to the second half. Rectangles are blocky and inelegant, but they increase your chances of keeping the cheese inside the sandwich long enough to get it into your mouth.
Detailed explanation-4: -A triangular sandwich has two 45° corners that allow you to bite much further towards the middle on your first two bites, where there is more filling. This is followed up by a perfect, crustless third bite as you take the space left in the middle.