Bunuel wrote:
A cake is baked in a pan with a square bottom 9 inches by 9 inches. If the cake is cut into bars 1 1/2 inches long and 1 inch wide, how many bars will there be?
(A) 54
(B) 48
(C) 45
(D) 27
(E) 12
The area of the pan is 81 in^2 and the area of each bar is 1.5 in^2. Thus, there will be 81/1.5 = 54 bars.
Answer: A










