Division of camels

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once in arab, a person had three sons and 17 camels. when he died he made will for his three sons that the elder son will get 1/2 of his assets, second son will get 1/3 of his assets and the youngest will get 1/9th of his assets. now the problem arises that when they started dividing the camels they were unable to divide 17 into 1/2 or 1/3 or 1/9. because when they divide it comes out 8.5, 5.66 and 1.88 for which they have to cut the camels. which they never wanted. so they all went to the caliph of that era and put the problem in front of him. and history says that the caliph was so intelligent that he solved this query in just five minutes. so any one here who can solve this question:) lets see how many of you can solve this. must have a concrete solution