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  1. 28th January 2009, 10:28 PM #1
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    Wink A very amusing paradox:

    A wealthy man owned a stable of 'seventeen' horses. When he died he bequeathed the horses to his three sons. The will stated that eldest son was to be given one half of the horses, the middle son was to be given one third of the horses, and the youngest son was to be given one ninth of the horses. The sons were distraught. It was clear to all that the horses could not divided in this way without making a bloody mess.

    Question: How can they divide the horses as per old man's will? Give it a thought before looking at the answer!. You will be just amazed with the solution.
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  3. 28th January 2009, 11:04 PM #2
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    Er . . . . I was not in the slightest amused
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  4. 29th January 2009, 12:08 AM #3
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    Nor is it a paradox.
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  5. 29th January 2009, 10:27 PM #4
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    OK. I think i have stumbled upon the answer.

    There are 17 horses to be divided

    A gets 1/2
    B gets 1/3
    C gets 1/9

    So they borrow one horse from a neighbour and add it to the 17. Now they have 18 horses to divide up.

    A gets 1/2 = 9
    B gets 1/3 = 6
    C gets 1/9 = 2

    So we add the total 9 plus 6 plus 2 equals 17.

    The borrowed horse is returned to their neighbour and they all lived happily ever after.


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  6. 29th January 2009, 11:05 PM #5
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    what was in the video link, it seems to have been pullled?

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    Still there.
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  8. 29th January 2009, 11:18 PM #7
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    Ah, I see, yes it is I thought it was the you tube video in the window below which said the video had been removed. I thought it might have been a nackery or something where the 17 horses were being... well I won't go there.

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    Psst. Took me a while to find it too.
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    The embedded link was hidden in plain sight. YMMV

    A slightly different answer:

    The old man had 18 horses when he wrote the will. He didn't check his arithmetic, nor did his lawyer.
    (1/2 + 1/3 + 1/9 = 17/18).

    As luck would have it, one horse died, and the man never revised the will.

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    So, in the end, none of them got their share. Once the 18th horse was returned, that changes the final figures. For instance, the first son no longer has 1/2 of the horses.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Resination View Post
    So, in the end, none of them got their share. Once the 18th horse was returned, that changes the final figures. For instance, the first son no longer has 1/2 of the horses.
    I think that's the paradox!
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    ill son fix this problem



















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    horse-burgers to go.............
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