Australia's largest stock trading and investment forum Australia's #1 stock forum

OK -solve this 'Horse' problem, page-7

First 7 Last

Share
Profile

Follow
nippy

14,837 Posts.

895

11/02/24

11:05

Post #: 72345031
Share

Originally posted by Quamera: ↑

The thing to recognise is that there was never a full allocation of the estate assets because 9/18 + 6/18 + 2/18 = 17/18 and of course you can't have fractions of a live horse. There wouldn't have been any problem if the old fella had 17 grams of gold to split up, 8.5g to the eldest, 5.666...g to the middle, 1.888...g to the youngest and 0.944...g to the lawyers to handle the challenge to the will by the 2 younger sons.

Expand

The local butcher disagrees with you by the way!
2 Upvote

Reply

Top Stories

PSC

Prospect's Mumbezhi Project puts it at the middle of copper's megatrend. And FQM just bought in

NWC

New World board urges holders to accept Kinterra's now-uncontested takeover bid

TYP

Tryptamine enrolling binge eaters for magic mushrooms study

Listen: HotCopper Wire Podcast 018 – Potatoes, TACOs, and the $120M helicopter heist

PTX

This rare type of lymphoma ruins the body – so do existing treatments. Prescient could have a solution

First 7 Last