[SEL] Farmer's Math

[Mark Shulaw]

Correction : Its psychological. Made everyone think the division was 
as specified. Its only perception that counts. If you think it's fair 
then it is. In this case  the deceased farmers original division by 
the number of horses would could not result in a equal division of 
horses in any way other then mathematical. So the math could never 
work out in a real life division.  By adding a horse to the bunch it 
made the number divisible by the requirements of the will. Each got 
mathematically what was specified with the addition, then the left 
over went back to the other farmer. Leaving the sons nun the wiser. 
All because the math then worked by adding a horse.  Then taking away 
the left over horse in the end, nun noticed the inequity. The eldest 
son gained a half a horse. Middle son gained a little less then a 
half of a horse and the youngest got a lot less then his mathematical 
proper cut with two. But this kinda shit is what makes for good 
family fights at will time. At division time a family can reduce 
themselves to gnawing pennies in half to avoid feeling cheated and 
families torn apart for life.   Mark

At 01:14 PM 6/20/2016, you 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;
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>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.
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>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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Mark Shulaw
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