Selling Eggs: Duck or Hen x2 for 1 Basket

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The discussion centers on a mathematical puzzle involving a salesman with six baskets containing eggs: 5, 6, 12, 14, 23, and 29 eggs. The key conclusion is that if the salesman sells the basket with 29 eggs, the remaining chicken eggs will total twice the number of duck eggs. The analysis reveals that the baskets with 14 and 6 eggs contain duck eggs, while the remaining baskets, excluding the 29, contain hen eggs.

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A salesman has 6 baskets containing eggs. There are 5,6,12,14,23,29 eggs in 6 baskets respectively. They are either ducks or Hens eggs. The salesman says if I sell one out of the six baskets containing eggs, then I would have chiken eggs twice the no. of duck eggs which basket was Salesman thinking about
 
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The basket with 29.
89-29=60
60/3=20
14+6=20, so the 14 and 6 are duck eggs
the rest (except possibly 29) are hen
 

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