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																		| Author | Message |  | | Registered: May 29, 2007 |  |  Posts: 189 | 
 | | Posted: |  |  |  |  |  |  | This is a 5th grade math problem.  It's not a trick question.  And don't say that "a bus has no legs", and there is no driver on the bus (so don't include him/her).
 Read carefully:
 
 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??
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 |  | | Registered: April 4, 2007 |  |  Posts: 890 | 
 | | Posted: |  |  |  |  |  |  | where's the problem, unless I'm misreading it totally it should be 10990 legs
 7 girls
 343 big cats
 2401 little cats
 
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 7*2+343*4+2401*4= 10990 legs
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 |  | | Registered: March 14, 2007 |  | Reputation:  |  |  Posts: 17,804 | 
 | | Posted: |  |  |  |  |  |  | The answer is 11,970?! Edit: 10990 seems to be correct    |  |  |  |  |  | Thorsten |  |  |  |  |  | Last edited:  by kahless | 
 |  | | Registered: May 29, 2007 |  |  Posts: 189 | 
 |  |  | | Registered: March 14, 2007 |  | Reputation:  |  |  Posts: 17,804 | 
 | | Posted: |  |  |  |  |  |  | Quoting falcon2099: Quote:We have a winner.  10,990 is indeed the answer.
 rewarded    |  |  |  |  |  | Thorsten |  |  |  |  |  | Last edited:  by kahless | 
 |  | | Registered: April 4, 2007 |  |  Posts: 890 | 
 | | Posted: |  |  |  |  |  |  | thanks for the two positives I got on this   seriously though, what exactly was your point? That this one is too hard for a 5th grader? It might be, but it heavily depends on the kind of math education they got within the first four years. |  |  |  |  |  | - Jan | 
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