Wantunn mee

My wife asked me the following question today. Apparently it was given to one of her collegue’s kid (a primary one student) in a math test for a measly 4 marks.
The question:
A Hen costs $6
A Rooster costs $3
Chicks are $0.1 a piece.
How many Hens, Roosters and Chicks do you need if you have exactly $100 and the sum total of Hens, Roosters and Chicks must also be 100?
Yeah, I couldn’t solve it via algebra or any other mathematical method I knew. In the end, 2 minutes with perl and a text editor solved the equation in 2 seconds but bearing in mind the average P1 kid is not going to have a computer during the test (heck, not even a calculator), I’m baffled at why this would be a math question.
Anyone who knows how to solve this mathematically, drop me a note.
FYI, if you have to know the answer, click on the more link…

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You know it’s gonna be a tough day when you start the day falling out of bed.
So I was woken up by Caden crying next to my bed this morning. I look over and the wifey is not there…hmm.. probably in the loo. So I scramble to put in his pacifier before he wakes up fully (which I can tell from the rising screams).
Since his bed/rocker/dunno how you describe it thingy is next to my bed, the nearest exit happens to be the foot of the bed; which I head for; and step on the edge of the (platform) bed; and somehow slip; and land on my ass.
As predicted, it was a lousy start to a lousy bug filled day.

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I keep getting pantyhose ads and there was no mention of that prior to this entry so what gives?