You and I are trading cows.\nIf I give you one you have twice as many as me.\nIf you give me one we have the same number.\nHow many did we start with?\n\nPlease help me solve this puzzle.  The answer is not one and please show work.
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Let x be Mark's number and y be Ace's:\n\nif I(Ace) give you (Mark) one, Mark have twice as many as Ace:\n\n- Ace gives one up: y - 1\n- Mark gets one:    x + 1\n\nif I(Ace) give you (Mark) one, Mark have twice as many as Ace: 2 * (y-1) = x + 1\n\nIf you(Mark) give me(Ace) one we have the same number.\n\n- Mark gives one up: x - 1\n- Ace gets one:    y + 1\n\nthen x -1 = y + 1\n\nso, solve systems of equations:\n\n2 * (y-1) = x + 1\n\nx -1 = y + 1\n\ny = 5\nx = 7
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"as many as Julia" means "equal to the amount of Julia".\n\nSo the amount Robert has equals one-fourth the amount that Julia has.\n\nIf Julia has 100, Robert has 25.
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My two cluckers came out of eggs.  Did you know that there are two chickens for every human being on earth?  That's a lot of cluckers.\n\n\nChickens rule.
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The old joke I take it:\n\n2 cows in a field, one turns to the other and say's I've been artificiall inseminated. The other replies "Nah" , " yes straight up no bull."
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a. Dick finally decided which boat to buy.\n    Dick made his decision while on the boat.\n\nb.  We were shocked that they appointed the professor.\n      The results of the professor's appointment with his\n      doctor were shocking.\n\nc. The design has big squares and various sizes of circles.\n    The design has big squares and big circles.\n\nd.The sheep dog has too much hair around his mouth so \n    he  cannot eat his food.\n    The sheepdog is too hairy for us to eat him.\n\ne. Could this be the hair tonic that the invisible man uses?\n     Could this be the man's hair tonic which is invisible?\n\nf.  The governor is a street fighter who fights dirty (uses unfair tactics)\n     The governor is a street fighter who is not very clean.\n\ng.  I really cannot give him a good recommendation.\n      I have more good things to say about him than I have time\n      to say them.\nh  Terry loves his wife and I love my wife.\n     Terry loves his wife and I love her too.\n\ni.  Yesterday, they  told me she would go soon.\n     They said yesterday was the day she was supposed to leave.\n\nj.  There is a section available where no smoking is allowed , \n     apart from the smoking section.\n    There is no section available where smoking is allowed.\n\nHope this helps you out.  Please study these so you will understand what is meant by ambiguity.\nEnjoy your Sunday!
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one bro had 7 and the other 5.\nif the one with 5 gave one away then he would have 4 giving the other bro 8 which is twice as many as 4. and if the bro with 7 gave one away then they both would have 6.
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That is good of you to share this information with us.  I Really had to try hard to find all six it was only when you continued with the bit about the word 'of' that I found another two but still missed the last one.  However I am old, so that may have something to do with it.\n\nIt kept me amused for a while so 10/10.  I demand more of this sort of thing;)\n\nI am going to try it with my listeners next time I do a show
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1. There are a total of 11 coins \nA. 2/11\nB. 0\nC. 6/11\n\n2. \nA. there are 2 possibilities (5,6) and (6,5) out of 36 poswsibilities (6*6).\n1/18\n\nB. 6 possibilities: (1,6) (2,5) (3,4) (4,3) (5,2) (6,1)\n6/36 = 1/6\n\nC. There are no possibilites, the Max sum of two numbers can be 12 (two sixes)\n0\n\n\nGood luck.
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Okay, I think this is what you're asking: suppose merchant A sells 2 bananas for $5 and merchant B sells 3 bananas for $5. Then one of the merchants gets sick and the other switches to selling 5 bananas for $10, will the other mechant make more or less oney than if he had sold at his original price?\n\nIf merchant A sells at 5 for $10, he will lose money.\nIf merchant B sells at 5 for $10, he will gain money.\n\nJust compute the amount each merchant makes per banana - Merchant A makes $2.50/banana and merchant B makes $1.67/banana (rounded to nearest cent). If they sell 5 for $10, they would make $2/banana.
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How many ways to pick 5 from 20 if order isn't important?\nAnd, how many ways to pick 2 from 7 if order isn't important?\n\nFor the second question, you have... 1,2 1,3...1,7 or 6 that include 1. Then 2,3 2,4... 2,7 which is 5 more. Then 3,4 3,5...3,7 which is 4 more. Keep doing this and you will see the answer is 6+5+4+3+2+1 = 21\n\nFor the first part 5 out of 20, note that the total number of arrangements of 20 things is 20! which is 20 x 19 x 18 x17 ..... x 2 x 1. But for every arrangement that you take the first 5 of, there will be 15! ways to arrange the rest.\nAnd for those first 5, you can get them in any order which means that 1 2 4 3 5 is the same for you as 2 3 1 4 5. So, you need to divide the 20! by both 15! and 5! which looks like this-  20!/(15! x 5!) and equals 15,504.\n\nNow for each pick from the cable houses (15,504 possible) you have 21 different ways to pick a no cable set. Therefore, multiply 15,504 by 21 to get your final answer. 325,584
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If you have 2 apples and they give them back you will have 2 apples.  IF they ate any I do not know how many apples you will have because the quantitity is not specified.  Good question though, it got me thinking for a minute, imagining cutting apples in half etc.
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ok if your a cat you can have how many you want.\nbut 5 times my god . no way that is way to many.\n4 is enough lol
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one\n\n\nahahahhaahha i am laughin at all the people above who you have reeeeally confused, hehehehehe gud result!
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8 total shoes were dropped on the floor.\n\nEmily grabs 1. We are now down to 7 shoes on the floor. 1 of them is the match with Emily and 6 are not.\n\n6/7 is the chance its not the matching shoe.\n\nGood Luck!
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YOur premise for the first set is wrong.\n\nif c + p + s = 100 \nthen 10c + 3p + .5s  cannot = 100, but rather it would be \nXc + Yp + Zs would equal 100 where X is 10, Y is 3 and Z is .5\n\nBUT, according to your work problem, it couldn't be 10c plus anything since cows are $10 and 10 would eat up the whole $100.
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Well, let's see.\n\n18 = b + s + c,  where b means bird(chicken)\n\ntotal number of legs:\nLt = 2b+4s+4c, right?\n\nLt = 3Ht +10 , total legs 10 more than 3 times number of heads\n\nI'd assume each animal only has one head, thus Ht = 18\n\nLt = 3*18+10 = 64\n\nLike most problems of this sort you must find integer solutions.\n\n18 = b + s + c\n74 = 2b + 4s + 4s\n\nA trial and error procedure is effective.  \nstart at \nb=s=c=6, -> Lt = 12+24+24 = 60, need more legs!\nb,s,c\n5,7,6, -> Lt = 10+28+24 = 62,\n4,7,7 -> Lt = 8+28+28 = 64 <------------- bingo\n\nNote that you can freely shift sheep and cows as long as the total is 14.  So, there are other solutions:\n\n4,14,0 -> Lt=8+56 =64....no cows.....
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70 chicks * .10$ = 7$\n19 pigs * 2$ = 38$\n11 sheep * 5$ = 55$\n-------------------------\n100 animals = 100$