Sharing Cattles

Sharing Cattles puzzle
A man passed away leaving 18 cattles for his 3 sons in his will. He directed that the 1st son should have half of all the cattles, the 2nd should have one-third of all the cattles & the 3rd should have one-ninth of all the cattles.

How many cattles will each of the sons have, if no cattle must be killed or cut?

Half=18/2=9, 1/3rd =18/3=6, 1/9th=18/9=2. 2+6+9=17.

23 comments:

  1. first the will borrow one cattle
    then 1/2 of 18=9 1/3=6 and 1/9 =2

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    1. Borrow from Where and Who... the answer is correct but one wil remain... who will they give it to.

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  2. hi admin, i m new to blogs..
    Could you please insist me creating a blog...?

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  3. where is the remaining one !

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  4. Where is remaing one ............... Ans-9+6+2+?

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  5. The first son gets 9, the second son gets 6, and the final son gets 1.

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  6. Is anyone else going to point out that there is no such thing as a singular "cattle"? I protest this grammatically incorrect problem.

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  7. This is an ancient problem: it was different. A man passed away leaving 17 cattles for his 3 sons in his will. He directed that the 1st son should have half of all the cattles, the 2nd should have one-third of all the cattles & the 3rd should have one-ninth of all the cattles. The 3 sons where not able to solve the problem, so they asked to an old man how to solve it. He said "I can give you for a while an other cattle, for free". Consequently they could divide: 9, 6, 2. The total is 17. What to do with the last cattle? They gave back for free to the old man.

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    1. hmmm me too agree with and heard the old riddle

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  8. Ya.....Ya the story is amazing......i agree.. :-)

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