Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/19 - Market Transactions
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Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $19$
- Market Transactions
- A farmer goes to market and buys $100$ animals at a total cost of $\pounds 100$.
- The price of cows being $\pounds 5$ each,
- sheep $\pounds 1$ each,
- and rabbits $1 \shillings$ each,
- how many of each kind does he buy?
- Most people will solve this, if they succeed at all, by more or less laborious trial,
- but there are several direct ways of getting the solution.
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Sources
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Money Puzzles: $19$. -- Market Transactions
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Money Puzzles: $11$. Market Transactions