Riddles are an endless source of inspiration, drawing people into their enigmatic vortex. Let’s explore the captivating battleground of English versus Math, where words and numbers clash in a fascinating dance of logic and creativity.
This is an interesting maths question which is really tricky but fun to play along..!!
Question:
1 rabbit saw 6 elephants while going to the river.
Every elephant saw 2 monkeys going towards the river.
Every monkey holds 1 parrot in their hands
How many Animals are going towards the river???
ANSWER: 5 Animals.
If you got the correct answer, well done!!
Why is the answer 5? Let’s go through the question again.
1 rabbit saw 6 elephants while going to the river. Hence, 1 animal (rabbit) is going towards the river.
Every elephant saw 2 monkeys going towards the river. This is the tricky part, from the sentence it seems to imply each of the 6 elephants saw 2 monkeys going towards the river, hence logically will be 6 x 2 = 12 animals (monkeys) going towards the river.
However, the statement does not explicitly mention that “Every elephant saw 2 DIFFERENT monkeys…”, hence implicit rules apply and infer that the 2 monkeys are the same.
Hence, correct answer is that every elephant saw 2 monkeys, and by inference, the 2 monkeys are the same, hence there exists only 2 monkeys which are going towards the river !! ?
Finally, every monkey holds 1 parrot in their hands. Hence, 2 parrots are going towards the river.
So in total, 1 rabbit, 2 monkeys and 2 parrots (5 animals) are going towards the river.
Hope all of you have fun with this simple english maths question.