Somalinet Maths Geniuses, come in

[TheLoFather]

Can you solve this problem?

A person was about to die, and before dying he wrote his will which went as follows...

"I have 17 camels, and I have 3 sons. Divide my camels in such a way, that my eldest son gets half of them, the second one gets 1/3rd of the total and my youngest son gets 1/9th of the total number of camels".

HOW MANY CAMELS SHOULD EACH SON GET?

[Complicated19]

I'm not a genius but 9, 6 and 2?
I bet it's wrong

[TheLoFather]

show your workings please.

[Basra-]

i'd say Complicated is correct.

[Kukri]

Can you solve this problem?

A person was about to die, and before dying he wrote his will which went as follows...

"I have 17 camels, and I have 3 sons. Divide my camels in such a way, that my eldest son gets half of them, the second one gets 1/3rd of the total and my youngest son gets 1/9th of the total number of camels".

HOW MANY CAMELS SHOULD EACH SON GET?

how is this for a whild guess.

in school when the teacher come in to the class i use to leave from the window.


8.5
2.8
1.8

[Basra-]

kukri.... we are talking about camels here-- u cant have a ".5" i would say round --the .5 to 1.


Start again.....

[Complicated19]

show your workings please.

WTF is this ... SAts?
17/2= 8.5
17/3= 5.67
17/9=1.89

Round them up u get 9, 6 and 2 which adds up to 17 as u can't have .5 of a living camel

[Kukri]

why cant you half camels?

[Complicated19]

why cant you half camels?

You'd have to kill it DUH!!
I'm sure the father didn't want them to have the camel as a food source

[TheLoFather]

show your workings please.

WTF is this ... SAts?
17/2= 8.5
17/3= 5.67
17/9=1.89

Round them up u get 9, 6 and 2 which adds up to 17 as u can't have .5 of a living camel

Not correct. how can you devide 17 living camels by 2,3 or 9? to do it will have to mean to kill some of them and that is defeating the objective of the will of the dead father.

[Complicated19]

show your workings please.

WTF is this ... SAts?
17/2= 8.5
17/3= 5.67
17/9=1.89

Round them up u get 9, 6 and 2 which adds up to 17 as u can't have .5 of a living camel

Not correct. how can you devide 17 living camels by 2,3 or 9? to do it will have to mean to kill some of them and that is defeating the objective of the will of the dead father.

not physically dividing them WTF ...

[Complicated19]

I give up

[IRONm@N]

This is an algebriac equation. I think the general form is:
0.5x + 0.3y + 0.1z = 17

[TheLoFather]

complicated19, ....... though your initial answer was correct but your workings were not.

here is the solution and how the problem came about.

Imam Ali, "A mathematical genius":

A person was about to die, and before dying he wrote his will which went as follows...

"I have 17 camels, and I have 3 sons. Divide my camels in such a way, that my eldest son gets half of them, the second one gets 1/3rd of the total and my youngest son gets 1/9th of the total number of camels".

After his death when the relatives read his will they got extremely perplexed and said to each other that how can we divide 17 camels like this?!!, so after a long and hard thought they decided that there was only one man in Arabia who could help them, so they all came to the door of Imam Ali and put forward their dilemma.

Ali said, "Ok, I will divide the camels as per the man's will.. I will lend one of my camels to the total which makes it 18 (17 + 1 = 18), now lets divide as per his will".

The eldest gets 1/2 of 18 = 9
The second one gets 1/3 of 18 = 6
and the youngest gets 1/9 of 18 = 2

The total number of camels (9 + 6 + 2) = 17, Ali said then, "Now I will take my camel back".

[Monsieur]

The eldest gets1/2 of 18 =9
The second one gets 1/3 of 18 = 6
The youngest one gets 1/9 of 18 = 2
Now the total number of camels = 17 (9+6+2= 7
Imam Ali (a.s)said now i will take my camel back