But he has a Lion, a Sheep and a Bale of Hay, and can only fit one in his boat at a time. How can he get them all over to the other island safely without the Lion eating the Sheep or the Sheep eating the Hay?
2006-10-16 09:45:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Take sheep over, come back, take hay over, bring sheep back, take lion over, come back and then fetch sheep
2006-10-16 09:48:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Get his wife to help! We've all seen the office, changing the characters isn't going to make it any more challenging.
Why does he want a Lion anyway, it would only be useful if he's trained and won't eat the sheep anyway. If he's a man on an island on his own he certainly won't want to be wasting that sheep, i think he should just take the sheep to the other island and live happily ever after
2006-10-16 16:57:01 · answer #2 · answered by agius1520 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First take the sheep over. Come back, pick up the hay, take it over and bring the sheep back. Then take the lion over, leaving the sheep behind. Then go back and collect the sheep.
2006-10-16 16:56:34 · answer #3 · answered by George M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He can either row back and forth 3 times or he can train the Lion to not eat the sheep and the sheep to not eat the hay.
2006-10-16 16:49:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
without getting eaten by the lion ... you're going to need a rope... tow the bale of hay with the lion tied on and get the sheep to row the boat... anyway it's illegal to import lions without a dispensation from the pope
2006-10-16 17:08:23 · answer #5 · answered by mark b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He needs to go over with the sheep, go back for the lion, take the sheep back with him to get the hay... leave the sheep, go back to the lion with the hay and then go back for the sheep - et voila
2006-10-16 16:54:37 · answer #6 · answered by DikiDoo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
first take the sheep across the river then go get the hay when you drop the hay off put the sheep back on the boat and take him back across the river take the sheep off the boat and put the lion on the boat and take him across the river then go get the sheep again and take him across the river and there u go all of them are across the river.....
2006-10-16 16:55:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the 7 trips: sheep, nothing, lion, sheep, hay, nothing and sheep.
2006-10-16 16:50:27 · answer #8 · answered by james t 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take sheep over 2 other side
go bck
take lion over 2 other side
pick sheep bck up and take it bck 2 other side
take hay over 2 lion
go bck and pick sheep up
2006-10-20 15:06:26 · answer #9 · answered by Jen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's he got a lion for anyway.......strange bloke......
It also assumes that as he starts at one bank with them all that he could stop all these things happening whilst he was there first of all. And that is actually feasible to take out one object and put in the other to come back at the same time......
2006-10-18 09:49:56 · answer #10 · answered by Robbo31 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋