Question

One rabbit saw six elephants while going to the river. Every elephant saw 2 monkeys going towards the river. Every monkey holds one parrot in their hand. How many animals are going towards the river?

Answer 1

5 animals are going towards the river .

Step-by-step explanation:

Here we have , One rabbit saw six elephants while going to the river. Every elephant saw 2 monkeys going towards the river. Every monkey holds one parrot in their hand.We need to find How many animals are going towards the river . Let's find out:

• 1 rabbit saw 6 elephants while going to the river. i.e. rabbit is only going towards river !

• Every elephant saw 2 monkeys going towards the river. From the sentence , each of the 6 elephants saw 2 monkeys going towards the river, hence will be 6 x 2 = 12 monkeys going towards the river.

But, 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 , every elephant saw 2 monkeys!

• Now , every monkey holds 1 parrot in their hands. 2 parrots are going towards the river.  

So , total number of animals is :

⇒ $1+2+2$

⇒ $5$

Therefore , 5 animals are going towards the river .