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100 Herbivores (Posted on 2002-06-10)

There are a total of 100 animals: cows, sheep and buffaloes. These 100 animals ate 100 bunches of grass.

Every cow ate 5 bunches, every buffalo ate 3 bunches and every sheep ate only 1/3 bunch.

How many cow, sheep and buffalo are there? You only know that there is at least one of every kind of animal.

Submitted by vohonam

Rating: 2.5455 (11 votes)

Solution: (Hide)

A very thorough solution to this problem was posted HERE by Ender, and I won't bother repeating it.
To sum it up though, there are three possibilities:
Cows: 4; Bulls: 18; Sheep: 78
Cows: 8; Bulls: 11; Sheep: 81
Cows: 12; Bulls: 4; Sheep: 84

Comments: ( You must be logged in to post comments.)

Subject	Author	Date
Some Thoughts	K Sengupta	2007-11-06 04:23:36
Puzzle Solution	K Sengupta	2007-03-08 12:08:00
3 solutions	Dave	2006-12-30 09:27:24
odd	sragen	2004-12-09 07:59:08
No Subject	Vee-Liem Veefessional	2004-08-26 23:18:34
More Logic !	vohonam	2002-06-12 18:22:39
A more thorough solution	Ender	2002-06-12 04:03:14
Hi Ender !	vohonam	2002-06-11 20:41:47
Solutions	Ender	2002-06-10 09:45:54

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