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Pinkcheeks
Supreme Spanko
Username: Pinkcheeks
Post Number: 914
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Friday, October 13, 2006 - 11:38 am: | 
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An old farmer died and left 17 cows to his three sons. In his will, the farmer stated that his oldest son should get 1/2, his middle son should get 1/3, and his youngest son should get 1/9 of all the cows. The sons, who did not want to end up with half cows, sat for days trying to figure out how many cows each of them should get.
One day, their neighbour came by to see how they were doing after their father's death. The three sons told him their problem. After thinking for a while, the neighbour said: "I'll be right back!" He went away, and when he came back, the three sons could divide the cows according to their father's will, and in such a way that each of them got a whole number of cows.
The Question: What was the neighbour's solution?
"Do I have to be good ALL the time?"
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Tammynx
Moderator/Spanking Aficionado
Username: Tammynx
Post Number: 1347
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Friday, October 13, 2006 - 12:11 pm: |
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Did the neighbor bring an extra cow??
That way there were 18 cows...
one gets 9 half of 18
one gets 1/3 of 18 which is 6
the youngest gets 1/9 of 18 which would be 2
then 9+6+2 is 17. The extra cow could back to where it came from
Is this right?? My math isn't that good and the math ones always stump me. |
Pinkcheeks
Supreme Spanko
Username: Pinkcheeks
Post Number: 916
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Friday, October 13, 2006 - 01:32 pm: |
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darn girl!!!
You are great at these!!
* I thought this was a really good one *
"Do I have to be good ALL the time?"
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Tammynx
Moderator/Spanking Aficionado
Username: Tammynx
Post Number: 1351
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Friday, October 13, 2006 - 02:22 pm: |
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The math ones take me a while...you should have seen me with scratch paper and pencil trying to devide out 17.
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