1/2 + 1/3 + 1/12 = 11/12
6/12 + 4/12 + 1/12 = 11/12
Pat gets 6 horses, Chris gets 4, and Sam gets 1.
The man anticipated the death of the horse. The children would still get their respective share of the horses that would all add up to 11 and not 12.
Unit fractions helps with visualizing parts and wholes. When we see a whole as a sum of its parts, we can easily separate parts out (dividing a whole into parts, then taking however many units we need).
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