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This math problem circulated through email at work the other day and I thought I would give you geeks a shot at it. Leave a comment with your answer and I’ll tell you if you’re right. By the way, I couldn’t get it, but I am really bad in math so that doesn’t say much. There is no secret here, it’s all in the problem, you don’t add 2 legs for the bus driver or something, just go with what you see. Now, here’s the problem….
There are 7 girls on a bus.
Each girl has 7 backpacks. In each backpack, there are 7 big cats. For every big cat there are 7 little cats. Question: How many legs are there in the bus?
4 Comments
Rus
February 25th, 2008
at 4:17pm
Hey there,
If there are no catches like “girls are ON the bus not IN the bus” or “cat’s legs are not technically legs”, i think there are 10990 legs in total
Let me know if i am right or wrong!
THanks!
Annie V.
June 15th, 2008
at 6:27am
There are 0 legs in the BUS.
teddgcm
June 15th, 2008
at 6:43pm
Rus is correct!!
Rhonda Williams
July 2nd, 2008
at 2:49pm
7girls( each girl have 2 legs)
7×2= 14 girls legs
7 backpacks for each of the girls
7×7 =49
7 big cats in each of the 7 bags
49×7=343(bc) x4 legs each = 1372 big cat legs
7 little cat for each big cat
343×7= 2401 x4 legs each = + 9604 little cat legs
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Legs in the bus 10,990 total
Unless there is a bus driver making 2 more legs then
10,992 total legs