Question

A number of cats got together and decided to kill between them 999919 mice. Every cat killed an equal number of mice. Each cat killed more mice than there were cats. How many cats do you think there were

Answer 1

Explanation:

i think there were 499959cats

Answer 2

Answer:

991

Explanation:

We can write 999919 as product of 2 numbers in the following manner

⇒999919 = 991× 1009

Also we have number of cats < rats killed by each cat.

Hence, we can safely assume that each cat has killed 1009 mice and there were 991 cats.