112.--A PUZZLING LEGACY.

From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney.

A man left a hundred acres of land to be divided among his three sons--Alfred, Benjamin, and Charles--in the proportion of one-third, one-fourth, and one-fifth respectively. But Charles died. How was the land to be divided fairly between Alfred and Benjamin?

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