Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

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?

0 is not the answer and there is no bus driver.

[torn asunder]

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?

0 is not the answer and there is no bus driver.

umm 14? it never says that the girls have the backpacks with them on the bus!

(if they are on the bus with them, it's 10990...)

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

they have them on the bus...

[Msterbeau]

All of them.

[Msterbeau]

Or maybe not. How big are these big cats? If they're tigers or Panthers or something like that, there's no way in hell you can fit 49 of them on a bus with 7 humans girls and all that other stuff... :-P

[Msterbeau]

Actually... I don't think you'll be getting any cats in a backpack without some scratches... never mind the size.

[Kit Kat P]

238?

[torn asunder]

7 girls * 7 backpacks each

49 backpacks * 7 big cats

343 big cats

343 big cats * 7 small cats

2401 small cats.

2401sm. cats * 4 legs = 9604

343 big cats * 4 legs = 1372

7 girls * 2 legs = 14

9604 + 1372 + 14 = 10990

am i missing anything!?

[Kit Kat P]

okay I missed the 7 backpacks each, I am not smarter than a 5th grader

[Msterbeau]

The problem with being a modern adult is that you think everything is a trick question.

Assuming no bus driver, I believe you're correct. But that was too simple so I guessed other things...

7 girls * 7 backpacks each

49 backpacks * 7 big cats

343 big cats

343 big cats * 7 small cats

2401 small cats.

2401sm. cats * 4 legs = 9604

343 big cats * 4 legs = 1372

7 girls * 2 legs = 14

9604 + 1372 + 14 = 10990

am i missing anything!?

[JaneDead]

ta is so smarter than a 5th grader

[Der Nister]

Are there any amputees in this equation?

[TygerLili]

Where did the little cats come from? Did the big cats eat them or something? Or are they all pregnant?

[Kit Kat P]

and how are 7 little girls carrying backpacks w/ squirming cats in each???

[the eternal]

Has anyone consulted the ASPCA on this??

BTW, Bean fwded this quizzical tale of cruelty and I am apparently the only one in my workplace that is smarter

than a 5th grader.

I can't say I'm surprised.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

We should start a club.

[jadnifer]

Yeah I thought that it was a trick question too. I could see why they would give it to a 5th grader though. They have different problems that they have to solve. Its a story problem. They have to multiply and add and such.