Question

Sparkles the unicorn is in the forest. She is helping herself to a nice big juicy apple. The monkey grabs the apple out of her mouth and starts to eat it. Sparkles notices that there are 18 pairs of eyes staring at the monkey. Based on the information you have been given, how many animals are in the forest in this moment?

Answer 1

11 animals

Step-by-step explanation:

-Sparkles is the first animal that is introduced, then the monkey is the second. Since there are 18 eyes, that can be divided by 2 to tell you how many of the remaining animals there are. Which would lead up to 9 and 9+2=11

Answer 2

Eleven (11) Animals

Based on the above given information, it can be construed that that Eleven (11) animals are in the forest.

Further Explanation

The first mentioned animal is Sparkles the Unicorn (Animal 1) who probably might be hungry and, might have searched through the forest to get the nice big juicy apple.

She might have dodged several wild predating animals just for luck to smile on her through the discovery of a big juice apple. She plucks it, and starts eating. A nearby lurking, cunning monkey (Animal 2), snatches the fruit from Sparkles the Unicorn, due to her carelessness, and as she proceed to retrieve the fruit, she discovered that that wasn’t the only monkey around. She sees eighteen (18) pairs of eyes which means, there are nine (9) other animals i.e. 18 pairs of eyes divided by 2 (18/2 = 9) are also in the forest.

Therefore:

Animal 1 + Animal 2 + 9 other Animals = 11 Animals

This kind of question can be said to be a Mathematical Puzzle.

Mathematical puzzle is a form of recreational mathematics, which helps to enhance students’ knowledge.

Mathematical puzzle helps students to understand different concepts of mathematical problems.

This form of mathematical improve students’ learning ability

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