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- From: jwodzia@dino.uucp (john wodziak)
- Subject: Re: Riddle -
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.074215.11757@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Sender: news@hubcap.clemson.edu (news)
- Reply-To: jwodzia@dino.UUCP (john wodziak)
- Organization: Clemson University Engineering Department
- References: <By0Msr.7uu@newcastle.ac.uk> <By3525.BIt@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 07:42:15 GMT
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- In article <By3525.BIt@ucunix.san.uc.edu> hollenbk@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Chris Hollenbeck) 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 :
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- >> 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
- What happens when you have a three legged animal? or for that matter
- a five legged animal who knows the green golf ball joke???
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- Always hope for your discontent....
- John
- jwodzia@eng.clemson.edu
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