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)

I am sorry friends/members, I apologise for the blunder that I have made. I actually made a mistake while solving the problem and that's the reason why the figures in my problem don't satisfy the conditions.

Well I think in the problem, the statement that says:


"My friend received from the dealer in total Rupees 301", should be actually:


"My friend received from the dealer in total Rupees 285".


Now I believe the problem is correct and you must be getting a solution (integral and not fractional) for the number of animals of each type in the farm.


I am really SORRY for such a mistake.

Posted by Ravi Raja on 2003-03-11 03:13:40