Problem #110
L's Birthday
L was celebrating his birthday. His mom made a triangular cake as per L’s request as he found that round cakes were too mainstream. After the candles were blown, L’s friends (who were 9973 in number) decided that they wanted triangular cake pieces. As L’s mom is fair towards his friends, she has the task to divide the cake into 9974 triangles of equal volume. Like L, even his mom likes a good challenge. So she decided to cut the cake in the following way:
She would select a point P on the triangular surface and from P she would trace 9974 rays which will intersect the sides of the triangular surface and cut through the rays resulting in 9974 triangular cake pieces of equal volume. But L pointed out that this type of partitioning is not possible for any interior point on the surface. So she is interested in finding out the number of interior points(P) wherein such equal partitioning of the cake is possible.