Brainteaser Answer

An animal rights activist was bathing twenty pigs in six days. He bathed an odd number of pigs on every one of the six days. How many were bathed on each day?

Answer: According to the official answer the farmer bathed three pigs on Monday morning and three in the afternoon. The rest of the week he bathed three a day. No one gave that answer, but since we thought it was an arbitrary answer the winner was the first student to provide a plausible answer: three on five of the days and five on one of the days.

The winner is IEOR senior Kit Lam.

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