Seventeen Mules
In Missouri，where they raise more mules than in any other place in the world, a farmer died, leaving behind seventeen mules and three sons. In his will he disposed of his mules as follows; One-half to the eldest son, one-third to the next, and one-ninth to the yourgest.
The administrator who went to divide the property drove a span of mules out to the farm, but when he went to divide the seventeen into halves, thirds and ninths he found it was impossible with live mules. Mules not being very valuable at the time, he unhitched one of his own
, putting it with the seventeen, amking eighteen, which he proceeded to divide as follows:
One-half, or nine, to the dldest son.
One-third, or six, to the next son.
One-ninth, or two,to the youngest.
Adding up nine, isx, two, he found that it made seventeen so he hitched up his own mule and went away rejoicing.
17頭騾子
密蘇里州的騾子比世界上任何一個地方的騾子都要多。那里的一位農夫去世后，留給三個兒子17頭騾子。在他的遺囑中，他將他的騾子分配如下：把二分之一給大兒子，三分之一給二兒子，九分之一給小兒子。
負責分配遺產的人駕著一輛雙騾套車來到了農場，但是當地開始把那17只騾子按時一分之一，三分之一和九分之一來分配時，他發現以活騾子根本無法做到。他發現以活騾子根本無法做到。在那個時候，騾子根本不值錢，他從自己車上解下一頭騾子，把它湊成了解只，然后他做了如下分配：二分之一，也就是九只騾子，分給大兒子：
三分之一，也就是六只騾子分給二兒子。
九分之一，也就是兩只騾子，分給小兒子。
他把這九只，六只和兩只相加后，得出了解只的總數。于是他把他自己的那只騾子重新套上車，欣喜地離開了。
