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Thread: Math time
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22nd December 2007, 11:48 AM #1
Math time
Nothing to do with woodwork. Conditions. If you have seen this before and know the answer please give the others a go. PM me if you already know and I'll acknowledge you here.
My wife said there are no legs on a bus, only wheels. She's a damn Capricorn and that's NOT the answer.
For those who can't add 2 and 2 I'll put a multiple choice poll in as well. Just have a punt.
Seven girls are on a bus (one is the driver..sheesh)and each has seven backpacks. Each backpack has seven large cats inside. For each large cat there are seven small cats. (For the purpose of the exercise assume they are very strong girls and that cats are allowed on buses).
Question: How many legs on the bus. (only warm blooded legs are counted i.e. no seat, chair or stool steel, aluminium or wooden legs.
Felicitations and good thoughts for the looming beer and prawn fest (some of you have already started it seems). I hope everyone over-indulges and is contented.
Last edited by Shedhand; 22nd December 2007 at 10:15 PM. Reason: Catering to the dingbats among us....
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22nd December 2007, 01:08 PM #2
Well Shedhand having spent 5 years building them buses that is and 25+ years repairing and driving them I have a different view.
I am also a Capricorn and your swmbo is wrong their are legs on a bus even without passengers, driver etc. As for Animal's none but seeing eye dogs are permitted on any public passenger vehicle so the cats/kittens would have been there in the first place. Lets not haggle to much re regulations etc etc.
This answer due to technical terms is harder than it seems.
Simply seats don't have legs the frames do.
So the bus as a whole therefore does have legs.
As every vehicle ever built is different in style/design and configuration/specs,
Like many Maths questions of this type facts for the question are missing see below
some seat frames have two legs and mounted to the side rail
some have one each and mounted to the side rail
others have 4 legs,
then of course each vehicle may have between 8 seats and 60+ seats on each vehicle, but not all seat frames are mounted with legs some dont have them at all ( now there's a puzzle).
The drivers seat frame doesn't have legs it has a pedestal base so you can't include that.
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22nd December 2007, 01:13 PM #3
Umm.... Rat's?
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22nd December 2007, 02:55 PM #4
10,990
100% of all non-smokers die
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22nd December 2007, 03:05 PM #5
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22nd December 2007, 04:23 PM #6
My head hurts just reading it, so Rats!
Last edited by Pat; 22nd December 2007 at 04:24 PM. Reason: Gumbied, I will proof read, one day :)
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22nd December 2007, 04:26 PM #7
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22nd December 2007, 05:28 PM #8
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22nd December 2007, 05:30 PM #9
depends how you want to analyse the question.
I chose to believe that each girl (and one is the driver) has put their legs on the bus (floor) and not the seats... so 14.... but I also got 1582 if I decide to count all the possible number of legs 'in' the bus.
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22nd December 2007, 06:15 PM #10
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11984?
[edit - way off .. recount10990]
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22nd December 2007, 06:22 PM #11
As with a lot of questions, the data supplied is insufficient to eliminate all possible configurations of the associated variables.
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22nd December 2007, 07:03 PM #12
There are 10990 legs if you don't count the driver.
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Cheers John
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22nd December 2007, 07:05 PM #13
It just says the girls are on the bus. The back packs they have could be at home....... so the cats are too. How are the going to carry seven backpacks anyway, and also if you try and take cats onto a bus they usually all run away, then a lot of fun ensues trying to herd them back onto the bus. So they aren't on the bus either. Then again it could be some jocular reference to girls and pussies, but then the joke would be in that sealed section. Aah! I give up. must be getting slow in my old age. Buses have wheels. Thats my answer. Us wives must stick together. I'm not a Capricorn either. just sensible.
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22nd December 2007, 07:07 PM #14
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By my calculations there are 10990 legs on bus. As you didn't mention a driver, I have assumed there is not one.
7 girls = 14 legs
7 girls x 7 backpacks = 49 backpacks
49 backpacks x 7 large cats = 343 large cats =1372 legs
343 large cats x 7 small cats =2401 small cats = 9604 legs.
9604+1372+14=10990 legs.
I also think that there is some "trick" to this, as the answer seems too obvious.
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22nd December 2007, 07:35 PM #15
Geoff,
Not if you are mathematically challenged,
as are a LOT nowadays, but not all School Kids
if they do not have a Calculator;
WITH Fully or Partially charged Batteries.
I mean correctly placed in the Calculator;
oh!
and it is turned on
Yes!
A lot of possible variablesNavvi
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