BLOWING GOAT
What exactly a blowing goat might be is still a matter of heated
debate. One of the only surviving references to this animal(?) is a
series of 642 GUE text books ranging from early grammar school to
college that includes the following basic arithmetic problem:
There
are 10 silver
zorkles in one gold
zorkmid, and 10 copper
zorkies in one
silver zorkle. If one blowing goat costs 5 zorkmids, how many zorkies
would you need to buy 40 blowing goats?
| SOURCE(S): A History of Quendor |