Are you able to reply this tricky question?
By raj0019
@raj0019 (2623)
Argentina
February 24, 2007 9:20am CST
On a farm there are three paddocks. In one paddock there are seven stacks of hay, in the second paddock there are 8 stacks of hay. There is no hay in the third paddock. The farmer then combines the haystacks from the first and second paddocks into the third paddock.
How many haystacks will the farmer now have?
Explain your answers, single lines will get negative rating (hehe)
3 responses
@Lil_miz_ice_x (614)
•
24 Feb 07
Umm, I think there would be eleven stacks of hay, as eight add three would equal eleven...
I doubt this answer is actually right, though, as there always seems to be a trick in these types of questions that makes it different to what you'd assume the answer was.
@foxyfire33 (10005)
• United States
24 Feb 07
The farmer now has ONE stack of hay. All of the hay from the first paddock and all of the hay from the second paddock were COMBINED in the third paddock. Combined equals ONE big stack of hay.
@springborn (295)
• United States
25 Feb 07
Yeah, foxyfire33's got it. All of the hay combined makes one huge stack.
@coolsid2007 (1030)
• India
24 Feb 07
I think an ideal answer would be 7 + 8 = 15,,,,but to be honest it totally depends on the farmer how he wants to arrange the hay.... also that if there is no hay in the third paddock it is possible that there is some animal in the third paddock which eats away all the hay .... and it can possibly be any number from 0 to 15 ... i hope i have made my ideas clear
