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- From: hollenbk@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Chris Hollenbeck)
- Subject: Re: Riddle -
- Message-ID: <By3525.BIt@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
- Organization: University of Cincinnati
- References: <By0Msr.7uu@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:30:05 GMT
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- 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?
- >
- >
- >
- > -Simon "I really should get round to creating a .sig" Rigden
- > -(S.E.Rigden@ncl.ac.uk)
- There is no real answer because the number of legs are split among two- and
- four-legged animals. One solution I came up with was 35 two-legged animals
- and 29 4-legged animals. This is the one that I think is the best solution.
-
- --CJH
-