Riddle - try and work this out!?!


Question: Riddle - try and work this out!!?
An Arab man has 17 camels and wants to divide them out between his 3 sons when he dies!. He wants:

The eldest son to have 1/2
The middle son to have 1/3
The youngest son to have 1/9

The farmer, realising that this doesn't work out wants his sons to work out how they split the camels up without shedding camel blood!.

Now the answer is that they borrow a camel from a neighbour so they have a total of 18 camels and:

The eldest gets 9 camels
The middle son gets 6 camels
The youngest gets 2 camels

This adds up to 17, and they can return the camel they've borrowed!.

How does this work out!?

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Answers:
It actually doesn't work the way father wanted it to!. They have to use another camel to make up to the 18!. When they give it back the fractions are wrong as the eldest gets 9/17, the next 6/17 and the last one 2/17!.

If you make the fractions as common denominators you get:-

9/18, 6/18 and 2/18 giving 17/18 which is 1/18 short!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

coz theyre doin fractions of 18 not 17, the numbers wil work out diferent, half of 17 is 8 1/2 nd half of 18 is 9 even tho they only used 17 camals theyre doin fractions of 18 not 17, i do understand but i cant explain things very wel sozWww@Enter-QA@Com

Well!.!.!.

1/2 of 18= 9
1/3 of 18=6
1/9 of 18=2

Add 'em up and you get 17!.

OR

1/2=9/18
1/3=6/18
1/9= 2/18
Common denominators!.

1/2 1/3 and 1/9 don't add to 1 whole!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

Because instead of doing a fraction of 17 they did a fraction or 18!. So they had to have eighteen camels!. It takes time to understand!. But once you look at it you will notice what they did!. But i am just a math freak so I now that kinda stuff!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

Because the ratios changedWww@Enter-QA@Com

18/2 (half) =9
18/ 3 =6
18/9= 2
9+6+2 17Www@Enter-QA@Com

17Www@Enter-QA@Com

i gave up after reading the first sentence and realizing there was maths lolWww@Enter-QA@Com

It's because the fractions work out when it's 18, I get it ;)Www@Enter-QA@Com



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