There are 30 cows in a field and 28 chickens. How many didn't?
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The answer is 10.
This riddle is a clever play on words and pronunciation. When you say the sentence aloud, it sounds like:
“There are 30 cows in a field, and 20 ate chickens. How many didn’t?”
The key is in how “28 chickens” is heard as “20 ate chickens.” This means out of the 30 cows, 20 ate chickens, leaving 10 cows that didn’t eat chickens. That’s why the answer is 10.