Once upon a time, there lived an old Person with his 3 sons in a deserted village, located in the vicinity of a desert. He had 17 camels, and they were the only main source of his income. He used to rent out camels for means of shipping in the desert. One day, he passed away. He had left a will behind, leaving his all assets for his three sons.
After his funeral and the other obligations were done, the three sons read their father will. While their father had divided the property he had into 3 equal parts, he had to divided the 17 camels in a different way. They were not shared equally among the three of them as ‘17’ is an odd number and a prime number, which cannot be divided.
The old man had stated that the eldest son will have half of the 17 camels, the middle one will get one third of the 17 camels, and the youngest one will have his share of camels as one ninth.
All of them were stunned to read their father will and questioned each other how to divide the 17 camels as mentioned in that will. It is impossible to divide 17 camels and give half of the 17 camels to the eldest one. It was not possible also to divide the camels for the other two sons.
They spent several days thinking of solution to divide the camels as mentioned in that will, but none of them could find the solution.
They finally took that issue to the wise person in their village. The wise person heard their problem and instantly found a solution. Immediately he asked them to bring all the 17 camels to him.
They brought the camels to the wise person’s place. The wise person added a camel owned by him and made the total number of camels 18.
Now, he asked the first son to read that will. As per the will, the eldest son will have half of the camels, which now counted to 18 / 2 = 9 camels. The eldest son got 9 camels as his share.
The wise person asked the second son to read the will further. He was assigned one third of the total camels.
It became 18 / 3 = 6 camels. The second one got 6 camels as his share.
Total number of camels shared by the elder sons were 9 + 6 = 15 camels.
The third one read out his share of camels which was 1 / 9th of the total number of camels – 18 / 9 = 2 camels.
The youngest son got 2 camels as his share.
Totally there were 9 + 6 + 2 camels shared by the brothers, addition of which become 17 camels.
Now, the one camel which was added by the wise person was taken back.
The wise person could solved this problem smartly with his intelligence.
Intelligence is nothing but finding a common way to solve an issue. In short, every problem in this world has their solution.
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