Question

We have an orange, a yellow and a pink cake. If the small pieces are of unit square area each, the cake is the largest.

• A. pink
• B. yellow
• C. orange

Answer 1

The correct option is A pink

To find out which cake is the largest, we have to find the size of each cake and compare them.

We know, each small piece is of unit square area, so more the number of pieces, more will be the area of a cake. Counting the number of pieces of a cake, will give us the area; ergo the size of that cake.

For the orange cake, we have $16$ pieces. So, its area is $16$ square units.



For the yellow cake, we have an area of $12$ square units because it has $12$ pieces.



Lastly, for the pink cake, we have the maximum number of pieces $18$ and thus its area is $18$ square units.



Since, the pink cake has the maximum area, it is the largest of all three cakes.