document.write( "Question 625693: A mother wants to give land to her three children. She gives one-half of the land to the oldest child, one-third of the land to her second child and one-ninth of the land to her youngest child. She keeps 1 acre for herself. How many acres of land does each child get? \n" ); document.write( "

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\n" ); document.write( "The first step is to get how much of her land she gave to her children. Get the sum of $\"1%2F2\"$ , $\"1%2F3\"$ and $\"1%2F9\"$ . The result would be $\"17%2F18\"$ . So, $\"1%2F18\"$ of the land is left to the mother, which is 1 acre. We can then say that the mother has a total of 18 acres of land. So the children get 9, 6 and 2 acres of land respectively. \n" ); document.write( "

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