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raister
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Ridiculous Math Problems
"If a ship has 26 sheep and 10 goats on board, how old is the ship's captain?"
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cyptus
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Unfortunately, the actual answer is "there is not enough information on the question to provide a response". It's an exercise as to the limits of problem formulation, from what I understood.
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