[Lvlug] sup guys the NPR Weekend Edition puzzle was really easy today

[Christopher Hever]

2008/6/29 Randy Kramer <rhkramer at gmail.com>:
> On Sunday 29 June 2008 09:21 am, Christopher Hever wrote:
>> "From a 19th century trade card advertising Bassetts Horehound
>> Troches, a remedy for coughs and colds: A man buys 20 pencils for 20
>> cents and gets three kinds of pencils in return. Some of the pencils
>> cost 4 cents each, some are two for a penny and the rest are four for
>> a penny. How many pencils of each type does the man get?"
>>
>> Hints: Gauss, unique *integer* solution
>
>  3 of the $.04 pencils for a total of $0.12
> 15 of the 2 for a penny pencils for a total of $0.075
>  2 of the 4 for a penny pencils for a total of $0.005
>
> Total: 20 pencils, 20 cents

Bingo