Math Puzzle

[dawg Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dawg]

This takes some thinking...

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?

The number of legs is the password to unlock the Excel sheet.
If you open it, add your name and send it on to see who else can unlock
it.

( Sorry, I wasn't able to paste the spreadsheet. I will post the answer later.)

I can email you the speadsheet if you would like!

Dale

[Spence Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Spence]

Are the cats from China or South Korea?

[Sydney Contributor - Bronze Find all posts View Profile Close Sydney]

240

[jericap Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close jericap]

I came up with 210

[Spence Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Spence]

240

I came up with 210

You guys are kidding, right?

Who is driving the bus?
How can each girl have seven backbacks, they each must have left six of them at home, my daughter has a hard enough time with one and her cats stay home.

[arlene22 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close arlene22]

Yikes, I came up with 10,990 (or 10,992 counting a bus driver).

[Keitht Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Keitht]

At no point does it say the girls have the backpacks with them. On that basis there are only 14 legs on the bus - assuming on of the girls isn't Heather Mills-McCartney, in which case there are only 13 legs.

[arlene22 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close arlene22]

At no point does it say the girls have the backpacks with them. On that basis there are only 14 legs on the bus - assuming on of the girls isn't Heather Mills-McCartney, in which case there are only 13 legs.

[dale7 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dale7]

9,604

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

9,604

Did you or did you not count in a bus driver?

[dawg Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dawg]

The bus driver is not included in the total!!

Dale

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

Surely you SHOULDN'T count the bus driver, because the girls and everything else are "on" the bus. It doesn't say they're going to school or anything. Maybe the driver is at the bar, having a shot, or at the doctor's, having an allergy shot.

Actually, I was thinking that although the girls HAVE these backpacks, it doesn't say that the backpacks are on the bus with the girls, so I thought it was a trick question and the answer was 14.

[jericap Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close jericap]

I'm changing my answer...can I do that? 14 legs

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

Can you post how you came up with the right answer? I can not come up with that #

[jericap Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close jericap]

Can you post how you came up with the right answer? I can not come up with that #

Who has the right answer? I posted mine, must have been at the same time wacky posted hers, but I don't know if it's right