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THE FARMER’S WILL

When Farmer Jones died, he left the quarter of his land that contained the farm buildings to his wife, and the remaining L-shaped area was to be divided equally between his four sons on the condition that the division would be into four parts that were identical in size and also identical in shape.

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If his sons failed to divide the land according to this condition, the whole farm would go to Farmer Jones’s wife. How should the sons have divided the land?