Backpacks and cats
There are 7 girls in 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?
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Answer
10990 legs
My method for solving this was the following:
Girls = 7
BackpacksPerGirl = 7
BigCatsPerBackpack = 7
LittleCatsPerBigCat = 7
TotalBackpacks = Girls x BackpacksPerGirl or 49
BigCats = BigCatsPerBackpack x TotalBackpacks or 343
LittleCats = LittleCatsPerBigCat x BigCats or 2401
GirlsLegs = Girls x 2 legs or 14
plus
BigCatsLegs = BigCats x 4 legs or 1372
plus
LittleCatsLegs = LittleCats x 4 legs or 9604
equals
10990
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Comments
Why would backpacks have legs???- Kelly (23 Mar 2009)
zero! buses dont have legs sillys.
- sarah (1 Mar 2010)
how is that posible i got 9,422?
- Katie. (1 Mar 2010)
what about a bus driver if since they are on a bus
- jason (9 Mar 2010)
they didnt count the bus driver
- (27 Aug 2010)
Yes they didn't count the bus driver why would they be on a bus to go nowhere. Also,Sarah it said in the bus not on it.
- Bob (25 Sep 2010)
rice
- tim (27 Feb 2011)
All added up I got 16662 including the bus driver and I don't muck up calculations and those calculations are wrong
- Jerome (9 Jul 2011)
I got 10,990. everyone: good point on bus driver, but since the riddle didn't mention one, (it didn't, right?) i'm assuming that it shouldn't be included in the calculations. Maybe one of the girls drives the bus?
- Lex (19 Jul 2011)
the answer is 2401 because you do 7 times 7 times 7 times 7 times 7 wich equels 2401
- alex (1 Aug 2011)
i got 212...
- kate (18 Jan 2012)
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