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- From: u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Damien Saunders)
- Subject: Re: Riddle -
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- Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 11:49:52 GMT
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- hollenbk@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Chris Hollenbeck) writes:
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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?
- >>
- >>
- >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.
- How many snakes were there in this zoo?
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- Damien.
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