There are no implicit rules because you are dealing with a fluid evolving language. You can not assume anything because you are dealing with math. This is a problem that has more than one correct answer. It is also a psych test almost as much as a math or story problem. All the answers CAN be correct. Depends on WHO as well as the question itself.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.
Yet monkeys have 2 hands and birds are animals.
Not from my perspective. There may be a dif goal for the monkeys. I believe there are only 3 animals going towards the river. 2 monkeys that are both holding the same 1 parrot.
Nope.Does the the parrot count if the monkeys are holding it?
Nope
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