Selling Eggs: Duck or Hen x2 for 1 Basket

[himanshu121]

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

 

[Jupiter]

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

 

[tacman]

Based on the information provided, it is not clear which basket the salesman was specifically thinking about. However, we can determine that the basket must contain an even number of eggs in order for the statement to be true. This narrows down the possibilities to the baskets with 6, 12, and 14 eggs, as they are the only ones with an even number of eggs.

If we assume that the salesman is referring to the basket with 6 eggs, then he must be thinking about selling 3 duck eggs (half of 6) and 6 chicken eggs (twice the number of duck eggs).

If we assume he is referring to the basket with 12 eggs, then he must be thinking about selling 6 duck eggs and 12 chicken eggs.

If we assume he is referring to the basket with 14 eggs, then he must be thinking about selling 7 duck eggs and 14 chicken eggs.

Without more information, it is impossible to determine which specific basket the salesman was thinking about. However, we can conclude that the basket must contain an even number of eggs and the ratio of duck eggs to chicken eggs must be 1:2 for the statement to be true.