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Long ago, there lived an old man with his three sons in a deserted village, located in the vicinity of a desert. He had 17 camels, and they were the main source of his income. He used to rent out camels as a means of shipping in the desert. One day, he passed away. He had left a will, leaving his assets for his three sons. After the funeral and the other obligations were over, the three sons read the will. While their father had divided all the property he had into three equal parts, he had divided the 17 camels in a different way. They were not shared equally among the three as ‘17’ is an odd number and a prime number, which cannot be divided. The old man had stated that the eldest son will own half of the 17 camels, the middle one will get one third of the 17 camels, and the youngest one will get his share of camels as one ninth! All of them were stunned to read the will and questioned each other how to divide the 17 camels as mentioned in the will. It is not possible to divide 17 camels and give half of the 17 camels to the eldest one. It is not possible also to divide the camels for the other two sons. They spent several days thinking of ways to divide the camels as mentioned in the will, but none could find the answer. They finally took the issue to the wise man in their village. The wise man heard the problem and instantly found a solution. He asked them to bring all the 17 camels to him. The sons brought the camels to the wise man’s place. The wise man added a camel owned by him and made the total number of camels 18. Now, he asked the first son to read the will. As per the will, the eldest son got half the camels, which now counted to 18 / 2 = 9 camels! The eldest one got 9 camels as his share. The remaining camels were 9. The wise man asked the second son to read the will. He was assigned 1 / 3 of the total camels. It came to 18 / 3 = 6 camels. The second son got 6 camels as his share. Total number of camels shared by the elder sons – 9 + 6 = 15 camels. The third son read out his share of camels: 1 / 9th of the total number of camels – 18 / 9 = 2 camels. The youngest one got 2 camels as his share. Totally there were 9 + 6 + 2 camels shared by the brothers, which counted to 17 camels. Now, the one camel added by the wise man was taken back. The wise man solved this problem smartly with his intelligence.

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昔、さびれた村で彼の3人の息子を持つ老人は砂漠の近くに位置し、そこに住んでいました。彼は17ラクダを持っていた、そして、彼らは彼の主な収入源でした。彼は、砂漠での出荷の手段として、ラクダを借りるために使用されます。ある日、彼が亡くなりました。彼は彼の3人の息子のために彼の財産を残して、遺言を残していました。葬儀の後と目

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Once upon a time, the old man with his three sons in the deserted village is located close to the desert, had lived there. He had 17 camels, and, they were his main source of income. He, as a means of shipment in the desert, will be used in order to rent a camel. One day, he died or

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むかしむかし、さびれた村で彼の3人の息子を持つ老人が砂漠の近くに位置して、そこに住んでいました。彼は、彼らが収入の彼の主な情報源だった、17ラクダを持っていた、と。彼は、砂漠での発送の手段として、ラクダを借りるために使用されます。ある日、彼は死にましたか

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Once upon a time, the old man with his three sons in the deserted village is located close to the desert, had lived there. He is, they were his main source of income, it had a 17 camels, and. He, as a means of shipping in the desert, will be used in order to rent a camel. One day

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むかしむかし、さびれた村で彼の3人の息子を持つ老人が砂漠の近くに位置して、そこに住んでいました。彼は、それが17ラクダを持っていた、彼らは収入の彼の主な情報源だった、である、と。彼は、砂漠で出荷の手段として、ラクダを借りるために使用されます。ある日