Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/19 - Market Transactions

Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $19$

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A farmer goes to market and buys $100$ animals at a total cost of $\pounds 100$.

The price of cows being $\pounds 5$ each,

sheep $\pounds 1$ each,

and rabbits $1 \shillings$ each,

how many of each kind does he buy?

Most people will solve this, if they succeed at all, by more or less laborious trial,

but there are several direct ways of getting the solution.

Sources

• 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Money Puzzles: $19$. -- Market Transactions
• 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Money Puzzles: $11$. Market Transactions