Question

Mary owned n sheep and sam had exactly 4 times as mary. mary buys 17 extra sheep and sam sells 8 of his sheep. sam still has more sheep than Mary. form an inequality, in terms of n. you must show all your working. your final line must begin with: least value of n is

Answer 1

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the remaining n − 1 are all the same color by induction. now put sheep a back in and take out a different sheep, b. by induction, the n − 1 sheep (now with a. are all the same color. therefore, all the sheep in the flock are the same color.

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Answer 2

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Number of sheep Mary owned = n

Number of sheep Sam owned = 4n

Mary buys 17 extra sheep, so n+17

Sam sells 8 of his sheep so 4n-8

Inequality becomes,

4n - 8 + 17

After solving the inequality we will get ,

n greater than Or equal to 25 / 3 .

=> n ≥ 25/3