Have you seen the latest math puzzle featuring a cow that is going viral on social media? Set against a quaint cottage backdrop, this tough brain teaser gets everyone buzzing as they try to figure out the answer. Let’s take a deeper look and see if we can solve it together! Solve this: A cow, and some numbers
Here’s how the puzzle goes: You buy a cow for $800. You sell the cow for $1,000, making a profit of $200. You then buy the cow back for $1,100. Finally, you sell the cow again for $1,300, earning a profit of $200 from the first transaction and $200 from the second, for a total profit of $400. The tricky part is keeping track of profits across the transactions!