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A 5th Grade Math Problem that took me 20 minutes… shoot!

February 19th, 2009 | Category: My Journal

Well, I got this e-mail from a family member of mine, and it took me… 20 minutes? to figure out that I forgot to multiply one 7! Give it a shot, see how long does it take you…

A bus has 7 girls, and each girl has 7 backpacks, and each backpack has 7 cats, and each cat has 7 kittens. From this information, what is the total amount of legs on the bus?

I trust that you guys won’t cheat, so here’s the answer:

HIGHLIGHT FROM HERE TO…

10990

HERE..



4 comments

4 Comments so far

  1. queebi February 21st, 2009 2:05 am

    it took me 7 minutes. it was so hard.
    stupid backpacks kept messing up my numbers.

  2. wes February 27th, 2009 11:40 am

    what the heck!? i calculated 2758 legs.

  3. queebi March 2nd, 2009 5:43 pm

    this thing is so stupid!
    … now i have 9,618

  4. queebi March 2nd, 2009 5:48 pm

    wait wait wait! i remember now
    7 dumb girls with
    49 dumb backpacks, therefore
    343 dumb cats, meaning there’s
    2401 dumb kittens.

    1372 dumb cat legs, and
    9604 dumb kitten legs, with the
    14 dumb girl legs.
    = 10990 … a ridiculous amount of legs on a bus, if you ask me.

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