I read the problem and pick out all the facts so I can start looking for a pattern. … If I have 3 cuts, how can I make 5 pieces? Try a few and see how the pieces look. … So I will need to make 4 pieces with 2 of the cuts and then cut one of those 4 pieces to create the fifth piece. Now that I know how that works, I need to try doing this on the 2 by 5 rectangle…. No, this doesn’t make sense… this makes a 3x3 shape but this only uses 4 pieces instead of 5 and one of the pieces doesn’t fit in. Okay, let’s try again. … Ok, but this only has 4 pieces, so it doesn’t make sense, I don’t want to build this with all the decimals. Besides, I don’t think breaking it into decimals lengths will help. Maybe the square is 4 by 4? … No, that doesn’t fit properly. Maybe I am going about this completely wrong. I’m going to reread the problem...