Only a genius can solve this!
By kwenge
@kwenge (2487)
Kenya
February 1, 2008 12:44am CST
There is a bus with 7 girls.
Each girl has 7 bags.
In each bag, there are 7 big cats
Each big cat has 7 little cats.
Each cat has 4 legs.
Question: How many legs are present in bus?
If you get the correct answer, count yourself a genius
Good luck.
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6 responses
@piesmeralda (388)
• Philippines
1 Feb 08
Nice try! I haven't thought of that....hehehehehe. Let's just hope it's correct.
@piesmeralda (388)
• Philippines
1 Feb 08
Philosophically, 0, your riddle did not say that the girls are in the bus.
But if they are in the bus, there would be 14 legs in the bus that belong to the girls.
The 1568 cats' legs are actually in the bag and not in the bus.
Just tryin'. I hope I am correct in any way.:)
@piesmeralda (388)
• Philippines
1 Feb 08
I have to correct my answer. There are actually 110976 cats' legs in the bags.
7kittens:1cat = 28legs(kittens) + 4legs(1cat) = 32legs:8cats
32legs x 7cats(1bag) = 224legs:1bag
224legs x 7bags = 1568legs:1girl
1568legs x 7girls = 10976legs(cats & kittens)
14 legs for girls(if they're in the bus)
10976 legs for the cats and kittens in all 49 bags
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10990 legs for all of them
@SViswan (12051)
• India
1 Feb 08
I'd say 14! 2 legs for each girl!
But technically if you need to count the legs 'inside' the bus then you'll have to count the cats' legs too. It says each big cat has 7 little cats but it doesn't really say that they are in the bag...so there are only 7 cats in each bag.
So each girl has 7 bags..which makes a total of 49 bags....and each bag has 7 cats...which makes it 49x7 = 343 cats in total. And 4 legs for each of those cats would make it 343x4 = 1372 legs for the cats and 14 for the girls....which totals 1372+14=1386.
But I don't think that is the answer...it's probably 14! or maybe 16 including the driver!
@urbandekay (18278)
•
1 Feb 08
Not 110976, 110977; you forgot the one legged bus driver
all the best urban
@urbandekay (18278)
•
1 Feb 08
Well there must be a driver or the bus is going nowhere and is just a shed! 110978 then!
all the best urban
@amincool88 (1)
• India
21 Jun 09
each big cat has 7 little cat and each little cat has 4 legs. so total little cat's leges= 4*7=28
each big cat has 4 legs, so 1 combination of big cat and 7 small cat cantain 28+4=224
so one bag contain total 224 leges
total number of bag is 7 so 7*224=1568 legs,so total number of legs bages 1568.
each girls has 2 legs, so total number of legs from one girl is 1568+2=1570.
total no of girls in a bus is 7, so total no of legs=10990.
THE ANSWER IS 10990
