Friday, February 22, 2008

Are you smarter than a 5th grader?

Ok I just received this e-mail and posted it on my blog and I will be honest, it was really hard. I'm not great at math to begin with. I think I had to try this about 4 times and finally got the correct answer- see if you can figure it out. You can post your comment with your number and I'll tell you if it's right!

Math Problem:
There are 7 girls on a bus (No Bus Driver).
Each girl is carrying 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 on the bus?

Good luck!- (it isn't a trick question)

7 comments:

Chris Diset Photography said...

Dont ask the Nikon users. You know they will all get it wrong.

Mandy Hank said...

LOL- :)

Phillip Glickman said...

9,618?

Mandy Hank said...

No Phillip-but you are close!

Amy Wellenkamp said...

OK...how about 10,990?

Mandy Hank said...

Yeah Amy- Yes!!!
Was it fun?

Amy Wellenkamp said...

OK...it was a little fun, as fun as word problems can be =). Phillip's answer helped me though. I was way off the first time.

Thanks for stretching our minds!