3 wanderers once met and equally divided and ate their bread. The first one had 5
breads and the second men had 3 breads. The third men had no bread. The third men gave 64 paise for his meal. How will they divide money among themselves ???
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Answer:
Shepherd 1 had 3 loaves.
He ate 8/3 loaves. So, he gave away 3 - (8/3) = (1/3) of a loaf.
Shepherd 2 had 5 loaves.
He ate 8/3 loaves. So, he gave away 5 - (8/3) = (7/3) loaves.
So, out of the 8/3 loaves eaten by the hunter, 1/3 came from Shepherd 1 and 7/3 came from Shepherd 2.
So, the compensation should be divided in the ratio (1/3):(7/3) = 1:7.
So, Shepherd 1 takes 1 coin and Shepherd 2 takes 7 coins.
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Manjunath Subramanya Iyer, I am a retired bank officer teaching maths
Answered April 17, 2019 · Author has 4.1K answers and 3.2Manswer views
3 loaves + 5 loaves = 8 loaves
Let us cut each loaf into 3 pieces. We get 24 pieces. So each one gets 8 pieces each.
The first shepherd keeps eight pieces and gives one piece to the hunter.
The second shepherd keeps eight pieces and gives seven pieces to the hunter.
So the first shepherd should take one coin and the second shepherd should take seven coins.
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Hungenahalli Sitaramarao Badarinath, former CE, Graduate, PG, Research Scholar and Faculty at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (1964-2000)
Answered March 9, 2019 · Author has 30.3K answers and 16.3M answer views
The total number of loaves of bread = 3+5 = 8.
Each of the 3 had 8/3 loaves.
The hunter had 8/3 loaves that gave the 2 shepherd contributed 2*8/3 or 16/3.
Of the 16/3 Shepherd 1 gave 3/8 of the lot while Shepherd 2 gave 5/8.
Shepherd 1 gets (16/3)(3/8)*8 = 3x
Shepherd 2 gets (16/3)(5/8)*8 = 5x
Now 3x+5x = 8x = 8 coins
So Shepherd 1 gets 3 coins and Shepherd 2 gets 5
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