Are You a Genius?

[GlasgowBandit]

Crack this if u want to add your name to the list of geniuses;

There's a bus with 7 girls. Each girl carries 7 bags. Each bag carries 7
big cats. Each big cat carries 7 smaller cats.

Question: how many legs are on the bus? - don't include the bus driver!

This is not a trick question i.e. the bus only has wheels. You need to
work out how many legs there actually are.

The answer is the password to open the attached file. Once you are in,
you can put your name on the list and forward it on.


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Pah, the file is too big to upload so put your answers on this thread.

[Claw75]

It doesn't actually say that the girls are on the bus, just 'with' the bus. 

[TightEnd]

7 girls = 14 legs
49 bags x 7 cats = 343 cats x 4 legs = 1,372 legs
343 cats x 7 little cats = 2,401 cats = 9,604 legs

Adding it all up:
14 + 1,372 + 9,604 = 10,990 legs

And everyone forgets that somebody must be driving the bus. So add 2 more legs for the bus driver.

The answer is:
10,992 legs

[steeveg]

238 or no wheels on a bus

[TightEnd]

7 girls = 14 legs
49 bags x 7 cats = 343 cats x 4 legs = 1,372 legs
343 cats x 7 little cats = 2,401 cats = 9,604 legs

Adding it all up:
14 + 1,372 + 9,604 = 10,990 legs

And everyone forgets that somebody must be driving the bus. So add 2 more legs for the bus driver.

The answer is:
10,992 legs

Regards


The Doctor of Maths

[Claw75]

7 girls = 14 legs
49 bags x 7 cats = 343 cats x 4 legs = 1,372 legs
343 cats x 7 little cats = 2,401 cats = 9,604 legs

Adding it all up:
14 + 1,372 + 9,604 = 10,990 legs

And everyone forgets that somebody must be driving the bus. So add 2 more legs for the bus driver.

The answer is:
10,992 legs

but a real genius would have read the problem correctly and realised it said 'don't include the bus driver'  

so 10,990 - am I the first to get it right?!

[TightEnd]

Flawed genius


Far more interesting 

[Claw75]

Flawed genius


Far more interesting 

I prefer my method - be the first to get the correct answer without doing any work

[TightEnd]

Flawed genius


Far more interesting 

I prefer my method - be the first to get the correct answer without doing any work

Civil Servants.

[totalise]

7 girls = 14 legs
49 bags x 7 cats = 343 cats x 4 legs = 1,372 legs
343 cats x 7 little cats = 2,401 cats = 9,604 legs

Adding it all up:
14 + 1,372 + 9,604 = 10,990 legs

And everyone forgets that somebody must be driving the bus. So add 2 more legs for the bus driver.

The answer is:
10,992 legs

but a real genius would have read the problem correctly and realised it said 'don't include the bus driver'  

so 10,990 - am I the first to get it right?!

no, I have highlighted your problem above... you have used a minus sign with the number, and a bus full of creatures cannot have negative amounts of legs, therefore you are incorrect.

heres my guess, which I think is correct:

7 girls = 14 legs
49 bags x 7 cats = 343 cats x 4 legs = 1,372 legs
343 cats x 7 little cats = 2,401 cats = 9,604 legs

Adding it all up:
14 + 1,372 + 9,604 = 10,990 legs

[taximan007]

Doctor of Maths/Genius/Leicester City !!! something amiss somewhere 

[TightEnd]

Doctor of Maths/Genius/Leicester City !!! something amiss somewhere 

Overweight, balding, crap at poker......the list could go on

[Claw75]

Flawed genius


Far more interesting 

I prefer my method - be the first to get the correct answer without doing any work

Civil Servants.

unfortunately I'm one of the lackies that has to actually do stuff

[taximan007]

Doctor of Maths/Genius/Leicester City !!! something amiss somewhere 

Overweight, balding, crap at poker......the list could go on

and we have never even met, so your physcic as well, amazing.

[Graham C]

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