A hunter met two shepherds, one of them had three pieces of bread and the other, five pieces. All the pieces of bread were the same size. The three men agreed to share the eight pieces equally between them. After they had eaten, the hunter gave the shepherds eight bronze coins as payment for his meal. How should the two shepherds fairly divide this money?
2006-06-22 03:21:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
HINT:So the first shepherd gave the hunter one-third of a loaf and the second shepherd gave the hunter two and one-third loaves.
2006-06-22 03:32:00 · update #1
they didn't get equally share.
2006-06-22 03:40:31 · update #2
i think they should share it depending on how much each shepherd's share the hunter ate.
the one with three loaves naturally ate 2 and 2/3 of his share, leaving the hunter with just 1/3 of a loaf.
the shepherd with 5 loaves, who also ate 2 and 2/3 of his loaves, gave the hunter 2 and 1/3 of his loaves.
if the hunter ate 2 and 2/3 of the loaves, and his payment of 8 coins corresponds to every 1/3 of his share of the loaves (since 2 and 2/3 divided by 1/3 = 8), then the first shepherd gets just 1 coin, and the second shepherd gets 7 coins
2006-06-22 03:54:52 · answer #1 · answered by simply_boring 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The shepherd with 5 pieces of bread should take 7 coins and the shepherd with 3 pieces of bread should take 1 coin.
Because 8 pieces of bread divided by 3 people equals 2 2/3 pieces each. So the shepherd with 5 pieces of bread gave the hunter 2 1/3 pieces where as the shepherd with 3 pieces gave just 1/3 of a piece. So the shepherd with 5 pieces gave 7 times as much bread to the hunter.
2006-06-22 10:55:23 · answer #2 · answered by Sarc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There could be many answers: so here is a one then in mathematical form:
one had 5/another had 3...okay...then 5=A and 3=b, so X= A+B/2
5+3+8/2=4 since there were 2 men and they had 8 slices between them the hunter should give them 4 a piece becuase it 2 of them to feed 3 of them equally and fairly.
2006-06-22 10:29:09 · answer #3 · answered by follownhim 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They had agreed to share equally, therefore the two shepherds shouldn't accept the hunter's money as payment for his meal.
2006-06-22 10:36:05 · answer #4 · answered by Debbie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think the one with 3 pieces of bread gets 3 coins the one with 5 pieces gets 5 coins fair is fair
2006-06-22 10:24:53 · answer #5 · answered by glowworm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they shared the bread equally so the sheperds got 4 pieces each.
2006-06-22 10:30:27 · answer #6 · answered by Rodney W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they throw it up and whoever can catch the most with their mouth open wins fairly! FAIR AND SQUARE!
2006-06-22 10:32:47 · answer #7 · answered by Smooth-as 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋