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Hi all,

I gone through the 5 pirate problem.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/puzzles/5-pirates-version-2-solution.html

Can you please help me with understanding why it won't be wiser to reject if you are providing me 1 coin? 2 coin or 5 coin? If all the pirates are smarter and intelligent they would ask to divide equally among them and that will solve the problem. or even I would suggest to give 10 coins each so I will have 60. and hence everyone will be happy.