This appears to be in reference to the old puzzle where a farmer leaves 17 sheep to his 3 sons, one son gets 1/2, another gets 1/3 and another gets 1/9. The reason it 'needs' 18 sheep is that the sum of the fractions given to the sons is 17/18, not 1. 1/2+1/3+1/9 = 9/18+6/18+2/18 = 17/18
The answer is provided within the riddle.The farmer has 18 sheep, all but 8 die. That means 10 sheep die, and 8 are left.This question is not about arithmetic, but reading comprehension. You don't want to calculate 18-8=10; that's what makes the riddle tricky. You need to know that "all but 8" means "all the sheep except 8."
Australia has 120 million sheep and about 20 millions of population. New Zealand has 3 million people and 60 million sheep. There are about 36 million sheep in the UK and about 60 million people. Argentina has about 14 million sheep and a population of nearly 40 million. So your answer may be Argentina.
Lion eats 1/4 sheep per hour.Leopard eats 1/5 sheep per hour.Bear eats 1/6 sheep per hour.Working together, they can eat (1/4) + (1/5) + (1/6) sheep per hour.(1/4) + (1/5) + (1/6) = (15/60) + (12/60) + (10/60) = 37/60 sheep per hour.60/37 hours per sheep = 1.6216 hours = 1hr 37min 17.84sec (rounded)
The way to solve this kind of problem is to calculate how much each animal eats in an hour, and add the fractions. (Of course, some assumptions are being made, mainly, that the lions eat at the same rate all the time.)In an hour, the lion eats 1/2 sheep, the wolf 1/3 sheep, and the dog, 1/5 sheep. Adding the fraction:1/2 + 1/3 + 1/5 = 15/30 + 10/30 + 6/30 = 31/30. The time it takes all together is the reciprocal of this: 30/31 of an hour, approximately 58 minutes.
Well lets see here it is about the amount of two guys fighting in a bar with two sheep and one cat to go along with that sheep and yes this right
The farmer has 9 sheep left. If the farmer has 17 sheep, and all the sheep except for 9 ran away then he has 9.
It is a sheep farmer.
It is a sheep farmer.
Stock farmer? Grazier
A woolgrower is a sheep farmer, or the owner of a sheep station.
a farmer
bush
I am a farmer. Majority of my sheep are eaten by wolves.
Usually sheep live on farms in the fields, in different parts of the country they may well be seen out on the crags roaming free until the farmer/shepherd brings them back to the fold.
A shepherd.
a farmer
a farmer who raises livestock (cattle, sheep, horses, goats, etc)