Question

A farm orders x horse shoes for its horses. The farm does not order extras and all the horses will get new horse shoes. Apply the k-to-1 rule to determine the number of horses on the farm. Express your answer as a function of x. You should not need the ceiling or floor functions.

Answer 1

Here,

x/4

Then the

k-to-1 rule.

Suppose there is a k-to-1 correspondence from a finite set A to a finite set B. Then |B| = |A|/k.