Schoolgirls+cats+bus = My Brain Hurts

#16 KoanYorel

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Posted 17 September 2007 - 12:30 PM

It's still only 14 legs.

See posts #13 & #14 above.

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Posted 17 September 2007 - 01:26 PM

you must be a optimist :flowers:

....(Murphy was a optimist) I'm a pessimist ...
It would seem obvious to me that they were present , only seven schoolgirls on a bus , with no school boys ? the reason... no room left because of the bags full of cats . If I was told "there's a nutjob in the parking lot and he "has" a large kitchen knife", I would prepare to deal with such a situation as if it was on his person at the time and not as if he left it at home :trumpet:

and lets face it, don't all nutjobs keep large kitchen knives at home ? :thumbsup:

(I have several including non-kitchen types as well )

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Posted 17 September 2007 - 02:13 PM

no one, on Sep 17 2007, 01:22 PM, said:

there are 10,990 legs inside the bus.

- There is a bus with 7 girls inside (7x2=14 legs)

- Each girl (7) has 7 bags, Inside each bag, there are 7 Big cats (7x7x7=343; 343x4=1,372 legs)

- Each Big cat (343) has 7 small cats (343x7=2,401; 2,401x4=9,604 legs)

14 + 1,372 + 9,604 = 10,990 legs

Congrats to all who got it right :flowers:

(I got it on the second try, I hate math :thumbsup:

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I didn't have my glasses on, and read the calculator as 1342 instead of 1372! Duh!

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Posted 17 September 2007 - 02:28 PM

no one, on Sep 16 2007, 11:08 PM, said:

A simple math question that made my brain hurt for a few minutes
(no cats or schoolgirls were harmed in this exercise )

A school bus has seven schoolgirls inside ,
Each girl has seven bags ,
Each bag has seven big cats in it ,
Each big cat has seven little cats
(assume there are no amputees )

How many legs are in the bus ? ( there is no bus driver , I think the reason is obvious :flowers:

)

I will post the correct answer later or you can pm me if you want

See, if we "assume" that the girls have the bags, but not with them, then much of our thinking is seriously altered.

Bank robber - "I have a gun."

Bank teller - "Me too."

Bank robber - "Did youi bring yours with you?"

Bank teller = "Uh, no."

Bank robber - "Me neither. See you tomorrow."

:thumbsup:

On the other hand, "legs" is also not specific enough. Are we counting girl legs, cat legs, or both? But wait, do the seats of the bus have legs? What about them? Which leg of the bus trip are they on? Even though the bus driver is not on the bus, do we know whether he or she has an a friend with an artificial leg and was transporting it to them on the bus? Nowhere in the question does it say whether anyone else other than the girls are on the bus. Besides possible school boys, were the girl's mothers, fathers, friends, etc. on the bus? Was anyone on the bus also carrying a table, stool, chair, etc.? That would also add to the number of legs.

And, most importantly, how many pounds of cat litter was on the bus?

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Posted 17 September 2007 - 09:01 PM

DSTM, on Sep 17 2007, 11:52 AM, said:

I got 14 Legs, .

Wow you must have a lot of shoes too :thumbsup:

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