3 dogs @ $15.00 = $45.00 41 cats @ $1.00 = $41.00 56 mice @ $0.25 = $14.00 100 animals costing $100.00
At 08:36 AM 01/16/2003 -0500, you wrote: > This week's puzzler: > > You�re given a hundred dollars and told to spend it all purchasing exactly >a hundred animals at the pet store. Dogs cost $15. Cats cost a buck, and >mice are 25 cents each. > > The other only other criterion is that you have to purchase at least one >of each animal. > > The question is, how many of each animal do you have to purchase to equal >a hundred animals purchased at exactly a hundred dollars? > > Last week's puzzler: > > Rail lines and bridges need to be taken out and the timing is critical. > > There�s no moon this night, and the thick overcast is an unexpected >yet welcome measure of security. > > His counterpart, a retired cavalryman, a veteran of the Great War, is >hunkered down in the sand on the French coast. > > The three men in the boat swiftly and quietly row back to Mother England. > > The soldiers of the German shore patrol, and there were many of them-- >each with the keen eyesight one would expect of young men -- didn't see >them or their flashing signal lights. > > It had to do with the old men. > > Last week's puzzler answer: > > The old men were critical because they had had something done to them that >only old people have. They had had cataract surgery. And when you have >cataracts removed, the lens is removed because the lens is what's gotten >cloudy. And what the lens does is it filters out ultraviolet light. So when >the lens is removed on those people who have had the surgery, they can now >see ultraviolet light, and of course the young German soldiers -- none of >whom had ever had cataract surgery -- could not see the light. > > _______________________ > Scott MacLean > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ: 9184011 > http://www.nerosoft.com >
