Question:

You are an employer who currently employs a worker at a wage rate of 1/7 gold brick per day.  You must pay the employee at the end of each day and he works seven days a week.  Keeping in mind that you are only allowed to make two cuts to your gold brick, how do you go about paying your employee?

Solution:

(Last time around, I decided to provide the solution in the same post.  Answer to come in a future post, stay tuned.)

 

I have categorized these series of problem solving questions in the "Quick BrainSharpener Category".