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- From: elston@acavax.lynchburg.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: Riddle -
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.160622.50@acavax.lynchburg.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 21:06:22 GMT
- References: <By0Msr.7uu@newcastle.ac.uk> <By3525.BIt@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <1992Nov22.074215.11757@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov22.074215.11757@hubcap.clemson.edu>, jwodzia@dino.uucp (john wodziak) writes:
- > 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 :
- >>>
- >>>
- >>> 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???
- >
- > Always hope for your discontent....
- > John
- > jwodzia@eng.clemson.edu
- >
- >
- >
- excuse me but the question only asked for the "number of animals" not for a
- breakdown by species. if there are 64 heads then there are 64 animals.....
- seems simple enough.
-