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Chickens, Pigs, and Cattle (Posted on 2004-02-19)

You are sent to the market by your father with 800 dollars, and told to buy 100 animals. When you arrive at the market, you find out that pigs cost 8 dollars each, so it would be easy to follow your father's instructions.

However, you see that there are only 99 pigs for sale. The only other animals there are chickens for 1 dollar each, and cows for 80 dollars each.

If there are enough chickens and cows for you to buy as many as you wanted, how can you end up buying 100 animals using exactly 800 dollars?

Submitted by RoyCook

Rating: 2.1000 (10 votes)

Solution: (Hide)

72 chickens
21 pigs, 7 cows.

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Subject	Author	Date
Remedy solution	Gamer	2011-01-02 19:54:07
Puzzle Solution: Method II	K Sengupta	2008-05-08 14:17:53
Puzzle Solution: Method I	K Sengupta	2008-05-08 14:16:38
answer	K Sengupta	2008-05-06 14:18:40
re(2): another salution	john	2005-06-13 21:07:45
re: another salution	Timothy Bard	2005-01-03 14:41:34
found an answer to the problem	richard	2004-05-16 13:02:34
re: Solution	Steve Royer	2004-04-17 01:40:32
another salution	hunter	2004-03-30 08:48:11
No Subject	Slobodan	2004-03-01 07:55:36
Solution	Tempe Everson	2004-02-25 08:56:37
Solution	Tempe Everson	2004-02-25 08:34:39
Solution	Cathy	2004-02-21 18:27:10
re: solution	Penny	2004-02-21 17:08:33
solution	maeve	2004-02-21 16:57:25
re: Ady's post about Penny's e.g.	Larry	2004-02-21 11:28:52
Chickens, pigs and cattle	sizz	2004-02-21 04:07:03
re: solution	Penny	2004-02-19 19:45:43
solution	Kristy	2004-02-19 19:30:30
solution	pierre	2004-02-19 15:09:37
Another way	Federico Kereki	2004-02-19 12:06:33
re(2): Solution OK, abbr. less	Penny	2004-02-19 10:47:55
re: Solution OK, abbr. less	Ady TZIDON	2004-02-19 10:24:22
Solution	Penny	2004-02-19 09:36:07

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