35.--JUDKINS'S CATTLE.

Hiram B. Judkins, a cattle-dealer of Texas, had five droves of animals,

consisting of oxen, pigs, and sheep, with the same number of animals in

each drove. One morning he sold all that he had to eight dealers. Each

dealer bought the same number of animals, paying seventeen dollars for

each ox, four dollars for each pig, and two dollars for each sheep; and

Hiram received in all three hundred and one dollars. What is the

greatest number of animals he could have had? And how many would there

be of each kind?

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