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OpenStudy (anonymous):

A farmer has to pack 48 chickens into 26 cages. If each cage can hold at most 3 chickens, what is the minimum number of cages that will have at least 2 chickens?

OpenStudy (sirm3d):

is there a condition that each cage must hold at least one chicken?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

no eveything is in the question

OpenStudy (sirm3d):

if a cage can be empty, then i will use 16 cages (48/3).

OpenStudy (anonymous):

A solution using the Mathematica program is attached.

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