Need help with math riddle

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
a farmer was on his way to the markey to sell some eggs when a neighbor boy on a motorbike accidentally knocked down the old man, causing him to break all the eggs in the wire basket he was carrying.

The scared boy was most apologetic fro the accident and said he would pay for the eggs.

He asked how many had been in the basket before the accident. . . .

the old man said "I don't know just how many I had. . but I did notice some patterns when I was cleaning them."

sets of 2 had 1 left over,
sets of 3 had one left over,
sets of four had one left over,
sets of 5 had one left over,
sets of six had one left over,
but sets of seven had none left over. . .

how many did he have?

There is not eough information to solve this problem.

Therefore, the answer is 42.

 

[Whitecloak]

721?

 

[NiteWulf]

Methinks the answer is 49, but OP or whoever he got the riddle from should have put either "was one short" or "had 4 left over" for sets of 5.

Other than that, I'll go with 301

 

[TechBoyJK]

lol, this was turned in like a week ago... the right answer was 301

 

[TheGizmo]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

Originally posted by: KillerCharlie

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: JeffCos
well it's kinda of obvious they want the lowest one, so it's 301. So, YES, he is too high.

Where does it say that?

Exactly...

I guess the real solution would be he had -119+j*420 eggs, where j is any integer greater than 0.

someone is high, because 420 is now in the equation...

Someone is high?

EDIT: oh...

me too

edit: high, not confused