Puzzle | Camels and Travelers
In a desert there are some camels and some travelers. How many camels and travelers are there if both the following statements are TRUE?
- If each traveler sit on the camel, one traveler doesn’t get a camel.
- If two traveler share each camel there is one camel left out.
Answer:
Camels-> 3
Travelers-> 4
Explanation:
As we saw in statement 1, there is a condition that one traveler doesn’t get a camel state that camels is one less than the travelers.
And in statement 2 there is a condition that two travelers share each camel state that traveler must be an even number. So the following cases occur:
1. States that the number of camels is equivalent to the number of travelers minus one.
camels = travellers - 1 ------(1)
2. States that the number of camels is going to be equal to half the traveller(because two are on each camel)plus one leftover.
(travellers/2)+1 = camels -----(2)
If we solve above two equations we get the result.
Last Updated :
18 Jan, 2023
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