My friend who owns a farm nearby, has five droves of animals on his farm consisting of cows, sheep and pigs with the same number of animals in each drove. One day he decided to sell them all and sold them to 8 dealers.

Each of the 8 dealers bought the same number of animals and paid at the rate of Rupees 17 for each cow, Rupees 2 for each sheep and Rupees 2 for each pig. My friend received from the dealer in total Rupees 285.

How many animals in all did he have and how many of each kind ?

(Given: 1 Rupee = 100 Paise)

(In reply to re(2): Error in the question? -- No, wait a second! by Charlie)

But as each animal costs a whole number of Rupees then Paise are irrelevant, since the only way any of the dealers could spend a number of Paise that wasn't a multiple of 100 (ie a whole Rupee) is buy purchasing a part of an animal. Now if the dealers were selling the animals to a butcher then this may be possible, but I think we are meant to assume LIVEstock.

1 Rupee = 1 Paise : c'est un kipper rouge!!!

Posted by fwaff on 2003-03-10 07:33:53