Sankhya and Ganith had to share a huge aloo paratha for lunch. They both liked aloo paratha very much. “Let’s cut it into two. Each of us can have one part,” said Ganith. “You cut it, Sankhya.”
Sankhya was going to fold the paratha into two, when her friends Faisal and John walked in. “We want a piece too!” they said.
Sankhya and Ganith would have had 1/2 a paratha each. Now they would have to have 1/4 of a paratha.
So they had to divide one paratha into four equal pieces. After Sankhya had cut the paratha neatly into four pieces, John saw a sugarcane piece in the kitchen. “I’ll eat the sugarcane. I don’t want the paratha,” he decided.
Sankhya, Ganith and Faisal had a quarter of the paratha each. And they cut up John’s quarter into three. What do you think they did with that!
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