Question

Answer this ?? One rabbit saw 6 elephants while going towards River. Every elephant saw 2 monkeys are going towards river. Every monkey holds one parrot in their hands. Now tell me how many animals are going towards river. IIM interview question most of the people guessed it wrong

Answer 1

Case 1: Best Case Scenario ( minimum animals to make the statement true)

1 rabbit saw 6 elephants while going to the river. So, it's only rabbit going to the river and not the elephants.

Every elephant saw 2 monkeys going to river. So, it could be same 2 monkeys seen by all the elephants. So there are 2 monkeys going to river.

Hence, total = 1+2 = 3

Case 2: Worst case scenario ( treating all as animals. i.e. max number of animals to make the statement true)

1 Rabbit

6 Elephants

6*2=12 Monkeys

Each monkey has 1 parrot in hand so 12 parrots.

Total = 1 + 6 + 12 + 12 = 31

Answer 2

5 animals was going to the river .

• The rabbit saw 6 elephants while going towards River . That means rabbit was going to the river .
• Every elephant saw two monkeys are going towards river . That means there was 2 monkeys going towards the river .
• Each monkey holds 1 parrot. That means by default parrots was also going to the river.
• Total animals = 1 + 2 + 2 = 5