A little teaser for you?!


Question: I am going to bed now but I leave you with this mathematical teaser. A little tougher than my previous three questions but I am certain one of you will get by the time I get up.
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A local farmer wants to buy new chickens, pigs, and horses. A new chicken costs 50 pence, a pig £3, and a horse £10.
The farmer sends his son to market with exactly 100 pounds with instruction to buy exactly 100 animals, but in such a way that he has at least one of each kind of animal.

The Question: How many animals, of each kind, must farmer’s son buy ?
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As always 10 points for the first correct answer with the calculations – if no correct answer the most original reply. If it’s made you think leave me a star by clicking “interesting”


Answers: I am going to bed now but I leave you with this mathematical teaser. A little tougher than my previous three questions but I am certain one of you will get by the time I get up.
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A local farmer wants to buy new chickens, pigs, and horses. A new chicken costs 50 pence, a pig £3, and a horse £10.
The farmer sends his son to market with exactly 100 pounds with instruction to buy exactly 100 animals, but in such a way that he has at least one of each kind of animal.

The Question: How many animals, of each kind, must farmer’s son buy ?
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As always 10 points for the first correct answer with the calculations – if no correct answer the most original reply. If it’s made you think leave me a star by clicking “interesting”

94 chickens @ 50p = £47
1 pig @ £3 = £3
5 horses @ £10 = £50

47+3+50 = 100
94 +1 + 5 = 100

interesting

i would just steal all the animals the dad needs, and use the money to buy booze and weed.

agreed... if you have to do conversions with pence and pounds and whatnot.... the farmer should move to the USofA where things (other than the metric system) are much easier, and then if he's in the same situation and having trouble not knowing how many of what animal he'd be able to buy, someone could actually attempt to help the poor man....

He should buy one horse, one pig, and 98 chickens and keep the change.

Or he could buy 94 chickens 1 pig and 5 horses and spend all the money.

209 animals
21797428937389784 pence:)

i'm not sure of how the money thing works because i live in the US but i would suggest that the farmer should buy his own animals

um...That's a good question...

can't be ars£d. going to bed myself. good night

first is a pence the same thing as a pound

none because if he was sent with 100 pounds and wanted 2 buy 100 andimals that is only one pound each and the chickens themself cost 50 pence
i live in the us so im probably wrong

I think Geodal is correct...i think...

Okay, so first he would buy 94 chickens for 47 pounds, then he would buy a pig for 3 pounds, and five horses for fifty pounds. Add them all up and you get 100 animals for 100 pounds. Took me a while to figure out, so i hope you appreciate all the work i did lol

At least He's begging for stars for being interesting, and not for being 'funny'.

"How many animals, of each kind, must farmer’s son buy ?"

He must buy 1 of each kind!!

9 horses = £90
3 pigs = £9
2 chickens = £1.

Total = £100

10 horses

94 chickens @ 50 p = £47
1 pig @ £3 = £3
5 Horses @ £10 = £50

100 animals = £100



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