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The 17 camels and 3 sons
Long ago,the lived an old man with his three sons in a deserted village,located in the vicinity of a desert.He has 17 camels,and they were the main source of his income.He used to rent out camels as means of shipping in a desert.One day,he passed away.He had left a will,living his assets of his 3 sons.
After a funeral and the other obligations were over,the 3 sons read the will.While there father has divided all the property
he had into three equal parts,he had divided the 17 camels in a different way.
There was not shared equally among the three as 17 is an odd number and a prime number,which cannot be divided
The old man has started the eldest son will own half of the 17 camels,and the youngest one will get his share of camels as one ninth!
All of them are stunned to read the will and questioned each other how to divided the 17 camels as mentioned in the will.It is not possible to divide the 17 camels and give half of the 17 camels to the eldest one.It is not possible also to divide the camels for the others 2 sons.
They spent several days thinking of ways to divide the camels as mentioned in the will,but none could find the answer.
They finally took the issue to the wise man in there village.The wise man heard the problem and instantly found a solution.He asked to bring all the 17 camels to him.
The sons bought the all 17 camels to the wise man's place the wise man added a camel Owned by him and made the total number of camels 18.
Now he asked the first son to read the will.As per the will,the eldest son got the half the camels,which now counted to 18/2=9 camels as his share.
The remaining camels were 9.
The wise man asked the second son to read the will he was assigned 1/3 of the total camels.
It came to 18/3 =6 camels the second son got 6 camels as his share.
The total number of camels shared by the elder sons 9-6=15 camels.
The third son read out of his share of camels -18/9=2 camels.
The youngest one got 2 camels as his share.
Totally there was 9+6+2camels shared by the brothers.
Now,the one camel added by the wise man was taken back.
The wise man solved this problem smartly with his intelligence.
Intelligence is nothing but finding a common ground to solve an issue.In short,and every problem has a solution.
And this story was wrote was Rithvikaa...
After a funeral and the other obligations were over,the 3 sons read the will.While there father has divided all the property
he had into three equal parts,he had divided the 17 camels in a different way.
There was not shared equally among the three as 17 is an odd number and a prime number,which cannot be divided
The old man has started the eldest son will own half of the 17 camels,and the youngest one will get his share of camels as one ninth!
All of them are stunned to read the will and questioned each other how to divided the 17 camels as mentioned in the will.It is not possible to divide the 17 camels and give half of the 17 camels to the eldest one.It is not possible also to divide the camels for the others 2 sons.
They spent several days thinking of ways to divide the camels as mentioned in the will,but none could find the answer.
They finally took the issue to the wise man in there village.The wise man heard the problem and instantly found a solution.He asked to bring all the 17 camels to him.
The sons bought the all 17 camels to the wise man's place the wise man added a camel Owned by him and made the total number of camels 18.
Now he asked the first son to read the will.As per the will,the eldest son got the half the camels,which now counted to 18/2=9 camels as his share.
The remaining camels were 9.
The wise man asked the second son to read the will he was assigned 1/3 of the total camels.
It came to 18/3 =6 camels the second son got 6 camels as his share.
The total number of camels shared by the elder sons 9-6=15 camels.
The third son read out of his share of camels -18/9=2 camels.
The youngest one got 2 camels as his share.
Totally there was 9+6+2camels shared by the brothers.
Now,the one camel added by the wise man was taken back.
The wise man solved this problem smartly with his intelligence.
Intelligence is nothing but finding a common ground to solve an issue.In short,and every problem has a solution.
And this story was wrote was Rithvikaa...
