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Are you really smarter than a 5th grader?

November 15th, 2007, 4:56 pm · 1 Comment?> --> · 1,147 views --> ·
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Ok, I don’t really know who the author of this is, so I am going to cite it as anonymous. But it’s a great riddle that only the mathematical mind  can figure out in less than 5 minutes. (I don’t mean to scare away those of you that are not mathematically oriented :)) Here is the riddle….

There is one bus with seven girls in it.
Each girl has seven (7) backpacks and each backpack has seven (7) big cats. Each big cat has seven (7) little cats.
How many legs are there in all?

When you are done figuring out the calculation (number of legs), click on this link to open(your answer is your password to open the excel worksheet) :

Are you smarter than a 5th grader?

Open the attached excel worksheet. The worksheet is password protected and contains your award. You will need the correct answer to open the worksheet and the sheet will not open without the correct answer!

Share a clue to the answer by commenting to this post. Please do not reveal the correct answer until the close of this post.

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  • 1 Christin c-unknown // Mar 21, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    If you want to solve it and get it right the first time, draw it out for one girl, then times it by 7.

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