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- From: surve_n@zebra.cs.jhu.edu (Naved A. Surve)
- Subject: Re: Riddle -
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.111323.16651@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 11:13:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.021557.29611@meaddata.com> dlovely@meaddata.com (David Lovely) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov20.172233.23768@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>, maven@lerc.nasa.gov (Larry Fishbach) writes:
- >|> In article <By0Msr.7uu@newcastle.ac.uk>, S.E.Rigden@newcastle.ac.uk (Simon Rigden) writes:
- >|> >
- >|>> The following is a riddle I saw the other day. Some people get it straight
- >|> > away but mathematicians seem to have difficulty - tell it to one and see.
- >|>>
- >|>>
- >|>> A man is talking to a zoo keeper :
- >|>> Man : How many animals are there in your zoo?
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >|>> ZK : Well, I can tell you that there are 64 heads and 186 legs?
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >|>> Is it possible to work out the answer to the mans question from this?
-
- [lots of unnecessary math deleted]
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- Unless you have 2 headed animals or headless animals, i suspect there will be
- 64 animals in this zoo. It seemed rather intuitiuve to me.
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- If the question is how many have 2 legs and how many have 4, then you can go
- nack to all the math I deleted, but the question can be seen above.
- I don't see how the answer can't be 64.
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