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• Farmer Ed has 500 cattle in the pasture. When he rides his horse into the pasture to sort the cattle, how many legs are in the pasture



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If there are 500 cattle in the pasture, we can deem that all of them have 4 legs
500 cattle x 4 legs each = 2000 legs
Since we have to count Ed’s legs as well, that is 2 legs
Along with the horse which has 4,

We are left with 2006 legs!
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