Story of 17 camels and 3 sons

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Once there lived an old man with his three sons in a village. The village was located in the vicinity of a  desert. He had 17 camels through which he used to earn a living. 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. The three sons read the will. While their father divided all the property he had into three equal parts, he had divided 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 can not be divided. The old man stated that the eldest son will own half of the 17 camels, The middle one will get one third of these and the youngest one will get his share of his camels as one ninth. All of them were stunned and asked each other how to solve this problem. It is not possible to give a half of 17 camels. It is not possible also to give the share to others sons as per their father's wish. They spent many days by thinking how to solve this. No one could find any answer or idea. They finally took the issue to a wise man in their village. The wise man heard their problem and immediately find a solution. He asked them to bring all the 17 camels to him. The sons brought the camels to 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 son got half of the camels which now counted to 18/2 = 9. The eldest son 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 of his share camels 1/9 of the total number and he got 18/9 = 2 camels. Totally there were 9+6+2 camels shared by the brothers which is counted to 17 camels. Now one camel added by the wise man was taken back. The wise man solve the problem very smartly.

Intelligence is nothing but finding a common ground to solve an issue. In short, every problem has a solution.

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