If you have five gold fish, and two drown, how many are left?

Question

Wow i'm surprised how many people got that right. Normally when i ask that question people say three, but of course fish can't drown, die yes, but not drown.

Answer 1

Five! Fish can't drown! LOL!

Answer 2

You have 5 and 2 of them are dead. For the ignorant ones out there! Fish can drown all you have to do is take them out of the water.

Answer 3

Fish can drown.

Just cover up their gills so they can't breathe. Or cover up the surface of the tank so no air can get in, and they drown from not having oxygen.

Also some fish do need to breath air, and can drown if they don't have access to the surface.

I will counter the "common sense" of the person below me with a little thing I call research.
http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/fish.asp

http://www.national-aquarium.co.uk/databases/FAQsLibrary/index.asp?FAQCategoryID=&FAQID=846&SearchText=#question846

http://www.myoan.net/facts/facts_fish_drown.html

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1162959

http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question2445.html

http://www.qeok.com/fish/1129-1-fish.html

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006050120141

http://susanscott.net/OceanWatch1999/nov22-99.html

It's called research, it's not that hard to do.

If anybody want's more links I would be happy to post more. Or you could try researching for yourself, just type it in google and the entire first page is links that say fish do drown.

Bottom line, fish can drown end of story.

Answer 4

Five. Fish can't drown!

Answer 5

five fish can't drown

Answer 6

fish can't drown

Answer 7

fish dont drown :)

Answer 8

2. If you don't have gold fish in water then well they'll die so you have 2 left

Answer 9

Fish can't drown!!!!!!!

Answer 10

five because the 2 dead ones will still be there, but they will be floating