SOLUTION: You have four horses, all of which travel at different speeds. In traveling from point A to point B, these horses take one, two, four and six hours respectively. One day you deci

Question 304661: You have four horses, all of which travel at different speeds. In traveling from point A to point B, these horses take one, two, four and six hours respectively.
One day you decide to move all your horses from point A to point B. However, you can only move a maximum of two horses at a time, and you need to ride a horse back to point A each time you return to move your other horses. Knowing you can only move as fast as the slowest horse you�re traveling with, what is the fewest number of hours it will take to complete your move?

Answer by richwmiller(17219) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
take the fast and the slowest
+6+1
take the fastest and next slowest
+4+1
take the the last two
+2
+6+1+4+1+2
14 hours of fun

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