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Reply #10 on: May 5, 2020
Carli and Dale want to divide fairly the chocolate-strawberry cake shown below using the divider-chooser method.  The total cost of the cake was $18.00.  Carli values strawberry and banana equally, but values chocolate twice as much as either of these put together.  Dale values chocolate three times as much as he values strawberry.  Further, he values strawberry twice as much as he values banana.



If Dale is the divider, which of the divisions shown below is consistent with Dale's value system?


◦ Division 1
◦ Division 2
◦ Division 3
◦ all of these
◦ none of these
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