A worker is to perform work for you for seven straight days. In return for his work, you will pay him 1/7th of a bar of gold per day. The worker requires a daily payment of 1/7th of the bar of gold. What and where are the fewest number of cuts to the bar of gold that will allow you to pay him 1/7th each day?

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  Day One: You make your first cut at the 1/7th mark and give that to the worker.
  Day Two: You cut 2/7ths and pay that to the worker and receive the original 1/7th in change.
  Day three: You give the worker the 1/7th you received as change on the previous day.
  Day four: You give the worker 4/7ths and he returns his 1/7th cut and his 2/7th cut as change.
  Day Five: You give the worker back the 1/7th cut of gold.
  Day Six: You give the worker the 2/7th cut and receive the 1/7th cut back in change.
  Day Seven: You pay the worker his final 1/7th.
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• 6 number of cuts
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• number of cuts is 2 and no of pieces is 3 (1/7 +2/7+4/7)
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• how?? can u plz explain
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• let gold is 140 gm. and you give 1/7 part of gold per day . it means that every day u give 20 gm. so cuts will be. 6.
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