{"id":279,"date":"2016-12-08T21:23:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T01:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=279"},"modified":"2016-12-08T21:23:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T01:53:15","slug":"at-elmers-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"At Elmer\u2019s Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The farm of Elmer Mudd in Texas is a large one stocked with horses, longhorn cows, and chickens \u2013 all managed by some farm hands.<\/p>\n<p>The number of horns, heads, wings and tails of the horses, cows, chickens and farm hands equals the number of legs.<\/p>\n<p><em>If there are four farm hands, how many chickens, horses and cattle do they manage?<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-279\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=279&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-279\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=279&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-279\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=279&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-jetpack-whatsapp\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-jetpack-whatsapp sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=279&amp;share=jetpack-whatsapp\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on WhatsApp\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The farm of Elmer Mudd in Texas is a large one stocked with horses, longhorn cows, and chickens \u2013 all managed by some farm hands. 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