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Draw circle
Pull 2 guides for center
Draw a rectangle using the thicknes for your gap
Center rectangle on guides (recomend using smart guides on)
Rotate Tool
Option click on guides center, and enter 72° = 360/5)
CMD D to make 4 more copies
Select All
Pathfinder >>Minus front
Not sure what your second question is? Try the knife tool to split up your circel freehand, click and hold the eraser to to find the knife tool.
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Josh,
I just rediscovered this thread, after having overlooked it, and realized my overlooking of the crucial left to right option mentioned post #8, as pointed out in post #10; the right wording in post #9 would have been:
If you do what Wade showed, remember to rotate by 90 degrees.
It is easier to look at a drawing, but sometimes full reading (and understanding) is better.
It has occurred to me that a literal interpretation of the OP and post #6 may be that the circle should be cut, but nothing should be carved out of it.
This would lead to a quite different solution, which may be done in a number of ways, the one shown below being silly but fun to make:
1) Create the circle,
2) Create a vertical line at one fifth from the left side (line Tool is fine), longer than the circle is high,
3) Move a copy of the line thrice by one fifth,
4) Join adjacent endpoints to create a single meander path of the four lines,
5) With only the path selected, Object>Path>Divide Objects below,
6) Move the slices apart (may be done four/two/one at a time with Object>Transform>Move).
Here shown for a circle without and with stroke:
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