A meeting of the minds
PROBLEM- None
SOLVED- None
GIFT- none
*Chapter 2*
Someone to count on
PROBLEM- None
SOLVED- None
GIFT- None
*Chapter 3*
Beasts of my burden
PROBLEM- 3 brothers had 35 camels they had to distribute where the oldest got half, the middle one-third, and the youngest one-ninth, but there was an uneven amount of camels.
SOLVED- The man who counted added Hanak's camel to the bunch, so the number of camels can be more easily divided.
GIFT- In the end the gift received was an extra camel.
*Chapter 4*
Food for thought
PROBLEM- Beremiz and Hanak run into a rich Sheik who was wounded and Hungry. He promised Beremiz and Hanak that if they shared their bread with him he would pay them back with …show more content…
GIFT: Lezid frees all the birds in the cage and they all get to hear a beautiful song.
*Chapter 11*
For Good Measure
Beremiz just give his first lesson of math. There is no problem, no solution, and no gift.
*Chapter 12*
Circular reasoning
PROBLEM: Harim (one of the here brothers they met in the desert) appeared. He had a problem with 60 melons that no one could solve.
SOLVED: Beremiz helped his figure out the problem by telling him how to figure it out.GIFT: none
*Chapter 13*
Friendship knows no Bounds
In this chapter there is not absolute problem.
*Chapter 14*
An Eternal Truth
PROBLEM: There was 2 slave girls who were dancing around, they both looked identical and no one could tell them apart. After solving this problem the Vizier Nahum becomes jealous and says that all the little problems that Beremiz is solving are all pointless and not important.
SOLVED: With the problem of the twin dancing slaves Beremiz just counts the skirts ruffles that they were wearing and he can tell them apart one has 309 and the other 312. With the problem with Nahum, Beremiz just makes a speech and says that math is one of the eternal …show more content…
GIFT: Everyone now had knowledge about the magic square.
*Chapter 16*
The Game Plan
PROBLEM: Beremiz tells the story of how chess was invented. It about a King who lost his son in a battle and never got over it. He spent all his days being depressed.
SOLVED: A poor man names Sessa came to visit the king to try and make him happy with a game. The game worked and the king was satisfied.
GIFT: At first the man didn't want a gift but the king insisted so the man finally said that he wanted a grain of wheat for each square on the board and each time it should be doubled. The king laughed at this but then when he got amount of the wheat he owed he noticed that it was A LOT of wheat he owed In the end Sessa liberated the king of his duty.
*Chapter 17*
Of Apples and AntsPROBLEM: There was a man who would always talk about how smart his daughters were and one day a judge decided to test that. He told the man to bring his daughters and when the judge met the girls he gave them a problem: He gave the girls 90 apples that they would have to sell. The oldest would have to sell 90, the middle 30, and the youngest 10. If the oldest sold each apple for 7 dinars then so would the rest, but if she sold them for 3 dinars then so would the others, No matter what the price the oldest decided to sell the apples the other 2 would have to follow and they would all have to end up with the