{"id":73986,"date":"2024-07-23T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/?p=73986"},"modified":"2024-07-23T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T09:00:45","slug":"this-seemingly-simple-cow-riddle-has-left-people-baffled-can-you-solve-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/this-seemingly-simple-cow-riddle-has-left-people-baffled-can-you-solve-it\/","title":{"rendered":"This Seemingly Simple Cow Riddle Has Left People Baffled. Can You Solve It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This &lsquo;too absurd&rsquo; puzzle puts your mathematics skills to the test as you try to work out how much one man earned as he repeatedly bought and sold a cow. Can you figure out how much profit he earned?\n</p><p>Let\u2019s dive in and see if we can solve it together!\n<figure id='\"attachment_73987\"' aria-describedby='\"caption-attachment-73987\"' style='\"width:' class='\"wp-caption' aligncenter><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"wp-image-73987' size-full src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/echowoven.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/07%5C/77777.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"1074\"' height='\"1287\"' title='\"\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/77777.jpg' https: sizes='\"auto,'><figcaption id='\"caption-attachment-73987\"' class='\"wp-caption-text\"'>(Image: @quiz_riddles\/Twitter)\n<h3>The Puzzle: A Cow and Some Numbers\n</h3><p>Here\u2019s how the puzzle goes:\n</p><ul>\n<li>You buy a cow for $800.\n</li><li>You sell the cow for $1000, making a profit of $200.\n</li><li>You buy the cow again for $1100, but since you already made a profit of $200 from the first transaction, your effective cost for the second purchase is reduced to $900.\n</li><li>Finally, you sell the cow again for $1300, making a profit of $400 ($1300 \u2013 $900).\n\n<p>So, What\u2019s the Correct Answer?\n</p><p>If you\u2019ve been following along, you might have already guessed it. The correct answer to this cow math puzzle is $400. Let\u2019s break it down step by step:\n</p><ul>\n<li>\u00a0Buy cow for $800\n</li><li>Sell cow for $1000\n</li><li>You now have +$200\n</li><li>Buy cow back for $1100\n</li><li>You now have -$900\n</li><li>Sell cow again for $1300\n</li><li>Total profit = $400\n\n<p>Did you get it?\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>This &lsquo;too absurd&rsquo; puzzle puts your mathematics skills to the test as you try to work out how much one man earned as he repeatedly bought and sold a cow. Can you figure out how much profit he earned? Let\u2019s dive in and see if we can solve it together! The Puzzle: A Cow and &hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":73988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[565,1214,319,322],"class_list":["post-73986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quiz","tag-math","tag-pluzzle","tag-quiz","tag-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73989,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73986\/revisions\/73989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></li></ul></li></ul></figcaption></figure></p>