This man asked his parents the most difficult farming question ever

This man asked his parents the most difficult farming question ever

Cows, chickens and... what? This is possibly the most confusing question you will hear this week. 

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After dinner, conversation can go one of two ways: extremely vibrant and engaging, or dull and increasingly awkward. If you're lucky, the people you're having a night cap with are interesting in a way that does not demand too much intellectual labour from you. 

One young man would not allow his parents to simply sit back and enjoy some pleasant, mindless conversation after the family dinner. 

He asked them a question about cows and chickens, and it sounded like a simple mathematics word problem - but it ended up being something far different:

How many didn't what

Watching the dad try to count on his fingers how many didn't only makes the whole situation more confusing. 

They seem to come to an answer in the end, but it is still not clear what the cows and chickens were doing together in the first place. 

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Let's try to solve it for ourselves.

There's 50 cows and 28 chickens. How many didn't?

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