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- From: kak6279@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.A. Kirchoff)
- Subject: Re: Riddle -
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.183930.26103@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:39:30 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?
- >>>
- >>>
- >>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?
- >
- >Damien.
- How about this... There are 64 heads. How many zoo animals do you
- know have more than one head?? So the correct answer is OBVIOUSLY 64!!!
- Duh!!!!!
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