Daily Math Puzzle: 2026-06-02
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2026-06-02
A wildlife rescue team uses two types of transport vans: small vans and large vans. A large van can carry exactly 3 times as many animals as a small van. In a recent rescue they deployed 2 large vans and 5 small vans, but one of the small vans was only half‑full. Altogether they rescued 105 animals. How many animals can a fully‑loaded small van carry?
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Solution
10 animals — Let the capacity of a fully‑loaded small van be S animals. Then a large van holds 3S animals. The rescue used:
- 2 large vans → 2 × 3S = 6S
- 4 full small vans (since one of the 5 was half‑full) → 4 × S = 4S
- 1 half‑full small van → 0.5 × S = 0.5S
The total number of animals rescued is therefore 6S + 4S + 0.5S = 10.5S.
We are told this equals 105 animals, so:
10.5S = 105 → S = 105 ÷ 10.5 = 10.
Thus a fully‑loaded small van can carry 10 animals, which corresponds to choice B (index 1).
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