Homework Help: math

Posted by maura on Monday, September 3, 2007 at 1:52pm.

There are 27 pigs. The farmer needs to get them into four pens. But all the pens have to have an odd number of pigs. Zero doesn't count as a number.

math - Reiny, Monday, September 3, 2007 at 2:03pm
must be a trick question.

The sum of 4 odd numbers is always even, so not possible.

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