[AT] Farmer's Math

Charlie V 1cdevill at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 16:34:55 PDT 2016


Just like we learned subtraction in grade school, Dave.
You bawerry the 1.  😉
On Jun 20, 2016 1:26 PM, "David Rotigel" <rotigel at me.com> wrote:

> A farmer died leaving his 17 horses To his three sons.
>
> When his sons opened up the will it Read:
>
> My eldest son should get 1/2 (half) of total horses;
>
> My middle son should be given 1/3rd (one-third) of the total horses;
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> My youngest son should be given 1/9th (one-ninth) of the total horses.
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> As it's impossible to divide 17 into half or 17 by 3 or 17 by 9,
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> The three sons started to fight with each other.
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> So, they decided to go to a farmer friend who they considered quite smart,
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> To see if he could work it out for them.
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> The farmer friend read the Will patiently, and after giving due thought
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> He brought one of his own horses over and added it to the 17.
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> That increased the total to 18 horses.
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> Now, he divided the horses according to their father's will.
>
> 1/2     of 18 = 9. So he gave the Eldest son 9 horses.
> 1/3rd of 18 = 6. So he gave the Middle son 6 horses.
> 1/9th of 18 = 2. So he gave the Youngest son 2 horses.
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> Now add up how many horses they Have:
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> Eldest son  9
> Middle son  6
> Youngest son  2
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> TOTAL = 17
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> Now this leaves one horse over, so, the farmer friend takes his horse back
> to his Farm.
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> Problem solved!
>
> (Scratch your head over how that was  accomplished....and let me know )
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