Pizza Square

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Somehow, the instructions get messed up. Instead of baking a round pizza, the seniors bake a square one instead. Depressed about the mistake, the dean removes a large corner large slice as shown below and eats it.

If the remaining "pie" is to be divided equally among four seniors, how would you cut the pizza so that all four get a slice of identical shape and size?

(Solution)


Puzzle by Michael DiSpezio.

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