The Pied Piper of Hamelin


Here is just a taste of the results with 720 qne 600 legs showing the ratios of rats to humans nad humans to rats.

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Lara, John-Anthony, Harry and Richard of Loretto Junior say: If you start with 100 rats and 100 humans and then do the following: Humans 98 and rats 101 Humans 96 and rats 102 And so on -- then you get a lot of combinations!! Yes - you're right, well done. That's a great way to start. So, everytime you have one more rat, you need to lose two humans so that the total number of legs stays at 600. Is it possible to have more than 100 humans then and fewer than 100 rats? We'd love to hear from you if you've investigated this problem further.Please don't worry that your solution is not "complete" - we'd like to hear about anything you have tried.