A question for you to ponder. Can you solve the problem for them

Here is a question for you to ponder. Can you come up with a good solution to stop the fight?

A farmer died leaving his 17 horses to his three sons.
When his sons opened up the Will it read:

My eldest son should get 1/2 (half) of total horses;

My middle son should be given 1/3rd (one-third) of the total horses;

My youngest son should be given 1/9th (one-ninth) of the total horses.

As it’s impossible to divide 17 into half or 17 by 3 or 17 by 9, the three sons started to fight with each other.

 

 

Can you solve this inheritance problem for the farmer's three sons?

 

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• 回复：A question for you to ponder. Can you solve the problem for t -冲浪潜水员- ♂ (241 bytes) () 02/22/2014 postreply 11:17:37

• Excellent! No wonder you‘re a 班长！ -环绕自然- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/22/2014 postreply 11:46:31

• Oh, you are so smart. -紫君- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/22/2014 postreply 11:58:10

• Dear sportwoman, ur too cute. It's ok to look up the answer. -环绕自然- ♂ (622 bytes) () 02/24/2014 postreply 00:02:39

• 报告自然，我不知该如何divide，看了冲潜的答案。 -紫君- ♀ (246 bytes) () 02/23/2014 postreply 13:47:23

• 紫君，这是好事，恰恰说明你是文学，艺术天赋高，与世无争，不计较尘世之物。 -环绕自然- ♂ (1141 bytes) () 02/23/2014 postreply 23:31:49