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Consider a ham sandwich, consisting of two pieces of bread and one of ham. Suppose the sandwich was dropped into a machine and spindled, torn and mutilated. Is it still possible to divide the ham sandwich with a straight knife cut such that both the ham and each slice of bread are divided in two parts of equal volume?
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