A man is the owner of a winery who recently passed away. In his will, he left 21 barrels (seven of which are filled with wine, seven of which are half full, and seven of which are empty) to his three sons. However, the wine and barrels must be split so that each son has the same number of full barrels, the same number of half-full barrels, and the same number of empty barrels.( Note that there are no measuring devices handy).

How can the barrels and wine be evenly divided?

Call each son A B and C (original yeh)> Give each son 2 of the full barrels. give each son 2 of the half barrels and give each son 2 of the empty barrels. you are left with 1 full, 1 half and 1 empty barrel. Pour half of your full barrel into the empty one and then divide between A B and C, each getting half a barrel. sorry if this is wrong, just found this site while drunk..quite like it

Posted by gill on 2003-08-09 17:40:57