bored and nerdy

[bertine]

my coworker (the fc) gave us this puzzle. i think i amazed everyone by solving it so fast. i think people forget that under this girly facade is someone that did get a degree in math and let's not forget that letter in math team.


you have $100 and you need to buy exactly 100 chickens. hens cost $1, roosters cost $5 and chicks cost $.05. You must use up all your money. (oops, i forgot this) You must buy at least one of each type. how many of each do you end up with?

also, someone come to quangs with me, i am craving an S5 so much right now.

Comments

[steeltoe.livejournal.com]

Buy 100 hens?

[jayp39.livejournal.com]

2 roosters $10
20 chicks $1
89 hens $89

aren't there quite a few solutions to this? were we supposed to find the number that would give us the most chickens altogether or something?

[f-o-n-y.livejournal.com]

dude, you got a letter in math team. don't tell boys that.

[greatestofnates.livejournal.com]

1,19,80 I think. I brute forced it since there are only a few chick combos that would work. Is there an elegant formula to figure it out for other cases?

You have $100 and need to buy exactly 20 items of food. S5s cost $7, shrimp yam balls cost $4, bubble tea is $4.50, and taro pops are $1.

[lowa.livejournal.com]

i hate questions like that. it makes my head hurt, my feet swell, and my hair to fall out and before you know it, i'm a big hot mess.