Monday, March 9, 2009

Trivia Question

Today I was looking through some exams and noticed this bonus question:

In an enclosure at the Forestry Farm you view peacocks and pigs.
There are 30 eyes and 44 feet. How many of each animal are there??


There were some very interesting answers I must say!


So, how are your math skills?
Can you figure it out and what method did you use??
Moto-Moto used trial and error but I came up with a formula!



Good luck!!



(Assume that both animals are not missing nor gained any body parts.)

6 comments:

Anonymous said...
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Anonymous said...

Let me change my answer....8 peacocks and 7 pigs= 15 animals!!!

I had a lapse of mind power, omit my first answer!@#!@#!

Crystal

Saucy said...

I didn't think there was going to be a test today.

Jerri-Lea said...

Good job Crystal!!

I think spring is on the way.. FINALLY!

Niki said...

Using algebra i got 8 peacocks and 7 pigs. Is that right?

Niki said...

Thank you for stopping by the nikiverse to validate my algebra. I am slowly getting back into the swing of things at work and couldn't resist your word problem.