Math Quiz!

There are 7 girls riding on a bus.
Each girl is carrying 7 bags.
Inside every single bag, there are 7 cats.
And every one of those cats has 7 kittens.
Every cat has 4 legs.

So, how many total legs are on that bus?

Anonymous said:There are 7 girls on a bus.
Each girl has 7 bags.
Inside each bag are 7 cats.
Every cat has 7 kittens.
Each cat has 4 legs.

How many total legs are on that bus?

You failed to mention how many legs each girl has. 🙄 🤣

70?

Anonymous said:There are 7 girls on a bus.
Each girl carries 7 bags.
Inside every bag, there are 7 cats.
Every cat has 7 kittens.
Each cat has 4 legs.

How many total legs are on that bus?

Actually, this is just an infinite loop. Every cat has 7 kittens. Then those kittens have 7 more kittens. And then those kittens have 7 even smaller kittens. And so on... 🤣

It’s not a loop.🙂

Jacob Foster11 said:And honestly, we’re looking at an infinite loop here. Imagine one cat having seven kittens. Then, every single one of those kittens grows up and has seven more kittens of their own. And then each of *those* little ones has another seven... you get the idea. It just keeps going on forever! 🤣

Bravo!!! 👋

Anonymous said:There are 7 girls on a Greyhound bus.
Each girl is carrying 7 bags.
Inside every bag, there are 7 cats.
Every cat has 7 kittens.
Every cat has 4 legs.

So, what’s the total leg count on that bus?

Just another one of those annoying chain emails clogging up my inbox.🙄

+9604 - total legs for all the kittens
+1372 - total legs for all the mother cats
+0014 - total legs for the women
____
10990 - man, that was a workout...

Anonymous said:It's not a loop.🙂

Fine. Not a loop, then. A recursive sentence. 🤣

Here’s a little brain teaser for you guys:

In a forest, there are $n$ trees.
No single tree has more leaves than the total number of trees in the forest.
And none of them are bare.
Prove that at least two trees must have the exact same number of leaves.

😉
- Took me about 30 seconds to crack this one. 🙂

Joshua Davis18 said:That's just one of those spammy things floating around in your inbox 🙄

+9604 - total number of legs all little kittens have
+1372 - total number of legs all mother cats have
+0014 - total number of legs women have
____
10990 - man, that was a workout...

Not even close.☕

Joshua Davis18 said:here's one for you guys:

there are n trees in a forest.
no single tree has more leaves than the total number of trees.
no tree is completely "bare."
prove that at least 2 trees must have the exact same number of leaves.

😉
- took me 30 seconds flat 🙂

Took you way too long. 🙄
If there are n trees, and each tree has between 1 and (n-1) leaves, then obviously at least two trees have to share the same amount.

Here is another little headache for your amusement. How many possible combinations are there in a 6/49 lottery?

Anonymous said:Not quite right.☕

Fair enough, I can actually open that Excel sheet I was sent now. But seriously, what’s the actual fix here?

Jacob Foster11 said:Here’s another little brain teaser for you all to chew on: how many possible combinations are there in a 7/39 lottery draw?

7^39 😕

And that's the whole thing—minus one, if my memory isn't totally failing me. 🤔

Joshua Davis18 said:Exactly. Now I can actually open that Excel spreadsheet I was sent. But seriously, what’s your go-to fix for this?

You forgot to mention the driver.😛

You really should let people struggle through it a little before you swoop in with the answer.😁

Joshua Davis18 said:7^39 😕

Give it another shot. 😉

Jacob Foster11 said:Give it another shot. 😉

39^7-1 🤷

I suppose I am:
15380937

or maybe I'm not 😕

Joshua Davis18 said:19^7-1 🤷

No. 🙂
How did you even get that number? Just guessing, or what...?

Anonymous said:You forgot to mention the driver.😛

You failed to mention how many legs the driver actually has. You also omitted whether the bus was even in motion. Maybe he was just startled. Or maybe there's a transit aide on board. Perhaps a fly flew in. 🤣