Completing Story: Dividing the Bread Between Two Rats (HSC Exam) Class 6, 7, 8, 9, SSC, HSC

* One day, two rats stole a piece of bread. They tried to divide it into two equal parts, but failed. They fought for that. Lastly, they agreed to put up......

Dividing the Bread Between Two Rats

One day, two rats stole a piece of bread. They tried to divide it into two equal parts, but failed. They fought for that. Lastly, they agreed to put up their problem to the monkey, who was considered the wisest animal in the forest. They went to the monkey and asked him to divide the bread into two equal parts.

The cunning monkey divided the cake into two pieces, but the bread was not equally divided. One piece was larger than the other. The first part became larger than the second one. The cunning monkey ate some portion from the first part, and this part became smaller.

Then he took some portion from the second part, and this part again became smaller. Thus, the monkey continued taking some portion from the larger part. The result of the method was that at last there was only a very small part.

Now, the rats could understand the trick of the monkey, and so they told the monkey to return only that small piece of bread. The monkey became angry and claimed that piece of bread as his charge and took it away the piece. At last, the rats could understand their foolishness.