Old MacDonald had a farm, EE-I-EE-I-OH!
And on that farm he had some pigs, EE-I-EE-I-OH!
With an Oink oink! here, and an Oink oink! there.
Here an Oink! There and Oink!
Everywhere and Oink oink!
Old MacDonald had a farm, EE-I-EE-I-OH!
Old MacDonald had some turkeys, too (certainly
with a Gobble gobble here and a Gobble gobble there). One
day, while out feeding them all, he noticed that, if he added everything
together, his pigs and his turkeys had a total of 24 legs and 12 wings between
them. How many pigs did Old MacDonald have? And how many turkeys?
Mrs.
MacDonald was a farmer too. She kept the cows and chickens. One day when
she went out to feed them she counted everything up, and found that her
animals had a total of 12 heads and 34 legs. How man cows did she have?
How many chickens?
In the link-weiner factory in Sausageville, the
wieners are made in long strings, with a link of skin holding each sausage
to the next one. So, although the wieners are firm, you can bend the string
of wieners around into many shapes. For example, you can easily bend a string
of three wieners into a triangle. Suppose you had a string of 9 wieners.
Without breaking the string, how many triangles can you make?
Solutions
Old MacDonald: 3 pigs, 6 turkeys
Mrs. MacDonald: 5 cows, 7 chickens
Wiener Triangles: 5 triangles, including the big one around the outside.