Oct
21
2009

Inheritance Math

Posted by: Jester

An old math professor poses the following problem to one of his classes:

A wealthy man dies and leaves ten million dollars to his heirs.

- One-fifth is to go to his son.
- One-fifth is to go to his daughter.
- One-sixth to his brother.
- and the rest to his wife.

Now, what does each person get?

After a very long silence in the classroom, someone in back raises his hand and says, “A lawyer?”

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