Can You Solve This Complicated Puzzle?
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?
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Answer: 5 animals were going toward the river.
Why is the answer 5 ?
Let’s go through the question again and talk through the result.
1 rabbit saw 6 elephants while going to the river. <– Therefore, one animal (the rabbit) is going towards the river.
Every elephant saw 2 monkeys going towards the river. <– This is the tricky part, from the sentence it implies 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 say that “Every elephant saw 2 DIFFERENT monkeys…”, therefore implicit rules apply and infer that the 2 monkeys are the same.
So, the 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. <– Therefore, 2 parrots are going towards the river.
Hope all of you have fun with this simple maths riddle.
