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The Friday Challenge: Are you smarter then a 5th Grader
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17. September 2008 @ 01:56 |
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Ok so i thought i would offer something different to everyone on aD a little riddle for you guys and gals to figure out. So here it is...
Apparently this is a real 5th grade math problem. If you can open the spreadsheet, you'll see that only a small list of people (older than 5th graders) have gotten the correct answer. This is not a trick question.
This is a real math problem so don't say that a bus has no legs.
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?
Good luck one and all...
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17. September 2008 @ 02:20 |
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84
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17. September 2008 @ 03:23 |
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You want us to post the answer or pm it to you. And have you not linked the spreadsheet so people know if they get it right or not? ;)
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17. September 2008 @ 03:26 |
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edit. sorry double post by accident. :)
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17. September 2008 @ 06:53 |
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If you want i can forward you the actual email with the spreadsheet. pm me your email and i can do that.
84 is not the answer.
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17. September 2008 @ 07:01 |
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I know the answer, i've done it before :) I just didn't want to post it and wreck it for everyone else.
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17. September 2008 @ 07:11 |
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70
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17. September 2008 @ 07:18 |
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Way off guys! You want to be thinking A LOT bigger than that! ;)
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17. September 2008 @ 07:31 |
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Hey....I just woke up. My brain doesn't kick in for a few more hours...usually when it's time for me to go to bed!!
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17. September 2008 @ 07:33 |
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238.
That's my final answer.
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17. September 2008 @ 07:34 |
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Hahahahaha.. nice one.
answer by pm ;)
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17. September 2008 @ 07:59 |
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10990 legs....doesn't count the bus driver
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17. September 2008 @ 10:08 |
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238 legs or 240 counting the bus driver assuming there is a driver:)
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17. September 2008 @ 10:46 |
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Loco got it right :)
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17. September 2008 @ 12:26 |
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;)
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17. September 2008 @ 21:00 |
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I think the real question about that riddle should be why each girl has seven backpacks.
Also, if you count the bus driver, as well as legs on the chairs (assuming it's a regular school bus with 25 2/3 [26 for simplicities sake] seats with four legs per seat), then the answer is 11,096.
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17. September 2008 @ 21:33 |
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I still don't believe how somebody can not only get it wrong but be told by somebody else they got it right.
It's really simple to get the right answer..
7 girls
49 backpacks
343 big cats
2058 small cats
= 2401 cats total.. which we assume have 4 legs each
9604 legs on cats
but we forgot the girls.. so add 7x2 = 14 which gives us a grand total of legs.. ta da!!..
9618
That's with all the available data.. we know nothing about the bus seats or any driver.. so those possibilities must be excluded for lack of information ;)
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17. September 2008 @ 22:01 |
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Sorry, varnull, but I got the same answer as loco.
Your math gets off when you do the small cats. There are 2401 small cats and not 2401 cats in total.
(Recheck 343 * 7).
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17. September 2008 @ 22:06 |
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Sorry varnull, LOCO has the correct answer.
7G X 2L = 14 legs
7G X 7BP = 49BP
49BP X 7 BC = 343BC
343BC X 7LC = 2401LC
ergo 343BC + 2401LC = 2744 CATS X 4 L = 10,976 cat legs +14 girl legs=
10,990
There is no driver mentioned and since seats are not mentioned, you can't count them, because you don't know how many the bus has.
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17. September 2008 @ 22:10 |
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Loco is the man. He got the number right. :)
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17. September 2008 @ 22:11 |
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Sorry dbl Post
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"the mediocre teacher tells. the good teacher explains. the superior teacher demonstrates. the great teacher inspires."- William Aruthur Ward
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17. September 2008 @ 22:31 |
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grah.. unlike a 5th grader I don't have a calculator
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17. September 2008 @ 22:45 |
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Originally posted by Evastar:
Loco got it right :)
It was pretty straight forward, easy, but the real question is...Could a 5th grader actually solve it, without using a calculator? :)
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18. September 2008 @ 01:04 |
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i totally screwed it up lol
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18. September 2008 @ 01:25 |
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Dont feel bad, ZoSo. I was half asleep trying to answer the question.
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