Can someone please help me with a word problem?!!!

Question

anonymous · Answer

Jim, Nancy, Carol, and Hugh were really hungry one 
day when they got home from school. All they could 
find to eat was a square cake left in the freezer. 
After they defrosted the cake, they had to find a 
way to divide it equally among them. In how many 
DIFFERENT ways might they have divided the cake? 
How do you know each person will get ¼ of the 
cake?

solomonzelman · Answer

b/c there is one cake, and 4 people want to eat it, so each gets 1/4.

anonymous · Answer

I'm not sure what you mean. The different ways to divide the cake... They could divide the cake into x pieces, as long as x/4 isn't an irrational number.

anonymous · Answer

Or it's what Solomon said.

anonymous · Answer

@Tirayrm yes what i mean is how many different ways can the people get 1/4 of the cake. Can you maybe draw a picture/diagram of how the cake would be cut in different ways?

anonymous · Answer

There's an infinite amount of ways to do this. It can be 4, 8, 12,16,20, it can be infinity many (assuming your knife/cutter is sharp enough).

anonymous · Answer

As long as the number is divisible by 4. The equation form of it would be 4x, where x is the number of pieces and x>1,

solomonzelman · Answer

|dw:1398643602236:dw||dw:1398643614160:dw||dw:1398643626664:dw|  different ways of 1/4ths..... idk.......