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Everyday a peasant must pay the king one pound of...........two parallel cuts and still follow the kings rules each day?

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Everyday a peasant must pay the king one pound of gold and leave it on a collection plate in front of his house. Every morning a guard comes by to make sure he has put a pound of gold on the plate. The king collects the gold every six days from the plate. If the peasant only has one six pound block of gold, how can he make only two parallel cuts and still follow the kings rules each day?

posted Mar 4, 2021 by Varuna Magar

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