Question

Once upon a time, many centuries ago, there lived an old merchant. All his life he had told hard, buying and selling, with the result that he had made a lot of money. As the years went by. he laid by more and more riches. But the day came when he felt that he had not long to remain in this world. He began to wonder what he should do with his money.
Now, he had two sons. He made up his mind that he would not divide his money between them, but that he would give it all to the one who proved himself to be the cleverer of the two. The problem to be solved was that of finding out which of the two sons was the cleverer. He decided to solve this problem by giving them a test
1. When did the old merchant think of passing the money in the safe hands?
2. What did he do all his life?
3. what did he do to divide his money between his two sons?
4. What was the result of the merchant's hard work?
5. What was the problem? How did he decide to solve it? Or What did the old merchant decide at last?

Answer 1

Answer:

1......the old merchant think of passing the money in the safe hands when he felt that he had not long to remain in this world.

2......All his life he had told hard, buying and selling.

3......he made up his that he would not divide his money between them, but that he would give it all to the one who proved himself to be the cleverer of the two.

4......the result of the merchant's hard work was that he had made a lot of money and he laid by more and more riches.

5......the problem to be solved was that of finding out which of the two sons was cleverer.

he decided to solve this problem by giving them a test.