A little humor

[HC]

Now my head hurts.

 

[michiganmuzzy]

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.

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.

 

[ENCORE50A]

It is a very tricky story problem but there is a single answer. Oh..... believe me, I pondered long and hard on the QUESTION.
There is way more information there than is required, which we, for some reason feel is pertinent to solving the question.

 

[michiganmuzzy]

Only the monkeys are going TOWARDS the river. The rabbit is going TO the river. The elephants MIGHT be going towards the river. There is a lot if info but there is a lot that is open to interpretation and speculation.

 

[ENCORE50A]

You're reading "to" much into it...…...

Animals going to or towards the river are doing exactly the same thing. The river is the goal.

 

[michiganmuzzy]

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.

 

[ENCORE50A]

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.

Perception is the problem they want you to ignore.

The rabbit (1) and 2 monkeys are going to, or towards, the river. The rabbit and monkeys have the same goal, the river.

 

[michiganmuzzy]

Does the the parrot count if the monkeys are holding it?

 

[ENCORE50A]

Does the the parrot count if the monkeys are holding it?

Nope.

 

[ENCORE50A]

 

[michiganmuzzy]

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[ENCORE50A]

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Nope

 

[HC]

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[ENCORE50A]

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Nope

 

[MrTom]

The answer is hinged on the last bunch of bananas and the X in front of it.

This must be why our IRS uses the tax tables that THEY use, not the ones they send us to use.

 

[BuckDoeHunter]

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missed the x, darn bourbon

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[ENCORE50A]

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Nope

 

[michiganmuzzy]

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[BuckDoeHunter]

Edited my original post

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[ENCORE50A]

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Nope