A FARMER HAS TEN BASKETS OF EGGS CONTAINING 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 1...

12. A farmer has ten baskets of eggs containing 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 22, 24, 29 and

34 eggs respectively. Some baskets have chicken eggs while other baskets have

duck eggs. He sells one basket and found that the number of remaining

chicken eggs is three times the number of the remaining duck eggs. How many

eggs were in the basket he sold?

【Solution】

The total number of eggs in the nine baskets the farmer still has must be a multiple of