Good maths

[prabu ms]

Read it at your own risk......don not blame me if ur
funda's are
shaken...............

Sardar's Maths

There is this group of 7 Sardars who plan to go to
Delhi to thank the
President Dr. Zail Singh for his revolutionary
policies, from which
they
have greatly benefited. Moreover, they are his old
friends, and are
longing to dine with the president.

They agree that it would be appropriate to use a taxi.
So they go to a
taxi driver and ask him how much a ride would
cost.

The driver frets a little and tells them, "Sahab! If
only four of you
were to be there I would charge you just the meter
rate, but then since
seven of you would be there, you have to give me
Rs.10/- more."

The Sardars agree and decide to take the taxi. The
taxi driver takes
them to Rashtrapati Bhavan. The meter shows Rs. 18/-,
so the taxi
driver
says, "You have to pay me Rs. 28/-"

Now, the Sardars have to share the cost! among
themselves and so they
decide to divide the total (Rs. 28/-) by the number of
people, i.e.7.

This is how they do the calculation to arrive at the
answer:

____
7 | 28 | 13 ( 7 x 1 = 7, 7 x 3 =
21).
7
--
21
21
--
0
--
The driver (naturally) is exceedingly happy upon
receiving Rs. 13/-
from
each of the Sardars. He thanks them profusely and the
feeling of
exultant happiness is writtern on his face as he
leaves them and
proceeds his way.

Seeing this, the Sardars feel that they may have made
a mistake. They
decide to ask Zail Singh about it. After all, the
fellow was the
President of the nation! After all the initial
formalities are
completed, they ask Zail Singh to check their
calculation of the taxi
fare. Zail Singh ponders over the calculations and
finally says,"See,I
am not good at division. The process just boggles me
but addition is
something I am an expert at. Let us add all the
amounts you guys gave
to
the taxi driver and check the result.

This is how I do for those tax forms I get very often.
The process is
slow but is sure." The other sard! ars nod their
heads(?) in
appreciation.

The President writes as shown below and also explains
as he writes on:

13
13
13
13
13
13
13
--
28
i.e. 3+3+3+3+3+3+3= 21 and 21+1+1+1+1+1+1+1=28 so this
checks out. He
then says, "Yes, it's correct. But I can also call my
close friend and
Finance man Manmohan Singh. It is always better that
he rechecks it.
After all, he is a Finance man,you know!"

Manmohan Singh arrives, and when told of the
problem,he replie! s that he
doesn't think it is a bad deal but says, "No problem!
I will verify it
via mathematical computation. I'll verify it with
multiplication. That
is the best technique for this, you see!" While
others watch in
admiration, Manmohan Singh goes on to write as
shown:
13
x7
---
21 (3x7)
7 (1x7)
--
28
--
This checks out as well.
Then he says, "This is really fine. There should be no
problem,
President Sahab. After all, it is correct in all the
methods"

Prabu...



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