At 06:10 PM 01/15/2003, David L. Gomez wrote:
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.
>
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