Brain Teaser Friday

WOW...LisaT thats good!!

I'm not sure its right though...

ANSWER:

The shepherd who had three loaves should get one coin and the shepherd who had five loaves should get seven coins. If there were eight loaves and three men, each man ate two and two-thirds loaves. So the first shepherd gave the hunter one-third of a loaf and the second shepherd gave the hunter two and one-third loaves. The shepherd who gave one-third of a loaf should get one coin and the one who gave seven-thirds of a loaf should get seven coins

I was partially right before, in that each shap gets 2.6. You have to split the loaves in 3, so you wind up with 24 pieces.

Shep #1 then has 9 pieces (3x3)
Shep #2 then has 15 (3x5)

then each eat 8 pieces (2 loaves [6] and .6666 of a loaf [2])

so Shep #1 gives the hunter 1 piece and eats the other 8. And Speh #2 gives the hunter 7 pieces and eats the 8.

so its 7 and 1

Don't worry LisaT, I know you got it. I thought you would be the one to get it right anyways.