Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader
At work the other day someone got an email with a simple math problem. Nobody could solve it, nobody, but me that is. I thought it was pretty simple. I am no math genius, but it was my favorite subject after science in school. Am I weird that I find math fun? I actually wish I could do more math for fun. I know I forgot most of the math that I learned in school, which sucks. So, here is that problem that nobody could figure out:
There are 7 girls on a school bus. Each girl has 7 backpacks. In each backpack there are 7 big cats. Each big cat has 7 little cats.
How many legs are on the bus?
There is no trickery. It’s just a simple math problem. Is it really hard, or do I work with a bunch of dummies? Try it out and put your answers in the comments.
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Salena
Ok so… 7 girls each have 2 legs {we assume} so there's 14 legs. And each of them have 7 backpacks with 7 big cats each… So 49 backpacks with 7 cats is 343 big cats and they each have 4 legs {we assume} so there's 1372 legs, and each big cat has 7 small cats, so 343X7 is 2401 small cats with 4 legs each {we assume} 9604…. so that's a total of 10990 legs, right? Or did I miss something? Please don't say I'm a dummy too…. 🙂
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I agree with Salena: 10990, unless there is a bus driver, too, then 10992.
And I'd be happy to send you some extra math problems. I've got books and books of them. What grade you you want to try??
mace
Yep, you are both right. I must work with a bunch of dummies.
mace
Yep, you are both right. I must work with a bunch of dummies.