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Cows and buffaloes. (Posted on 2015-01-07)

A dairy farm's cattle consists of 75% cows and 25% buffaloes.
Exactly 80% of all these animals are producing milk.
There are 76 milk-producing cows in the farm.
The above data defines uniquely the total number of animals in the farm.

What is it?

This is an old problem from Hindu Math. sources.

Submitted by Ady TZIDON

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Solution: (Hide)

The total number of cattle = 120
90 cows, of which 76 produce milk
30 buffalo, of which 20 milk

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Subject	Author	Date
Buffalo milk? (spoiler)	Steve Herman	2015-01-07 10:45:17
computer solution	Charlie	2015-01-07 10:30:39

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