A town has 20,000 people living in it. Five percent of them are one-legged, and half of the rest of them go barefoot. How many shoes are worn in the town?
From Derrick Niederman’s Mind-Stretching Math Puzzles.
May 29, 2010
Everyday Einstein – 5.29.2010
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