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25. Doesn't say the elephants were going to the river.
 
That’s why I have problems reading instructions.:bang:
 
13 the elephants weren't going towards the river.the parrots are birds not animals.
 
it doesnt say that each elephant saw different monkeys. It doesnt say the elephants saw the same monkeys. The possibility exists that there are only 5 animals going to the river. English and Math are different languages. Most people speak one or the other well.
 
If you only consider "towards" and not "to" then it would be 24. To the river and Towards the river leave some room for interpretation. Both at some point are going TOWARDS the river but only the rabbit is going TO the river.

But there is a catch. Monkeys have 2 hands. So you could double the number of parrots.
 
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.
 
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