A Riddle:

[Calperod]

There are 7 girls on a bus
Each girl has 7 backpacks
In each backpack, there are 7 big cats
For every big cat there are 7 little cats



Question: How many legs are there in the bus?

[Quoi]

None - just wheels

[factor-fiction]

2758

[factor-fiction]

misread it: 9618?

[Quoi]

I misread it & got wheels !

[fordward]

2760(the driver)

[Gizmonster]

1 big cat has 7 little cats so for every big cat there are 32 legs (8 x 4)
There are 7 big cats in each backpack, so in each backpack there are 7 x 32 = 224 legs
Each girl has 7 backpacks so each girl has 7 x 224 = 1568 legs
There are 7 girls so all 7 girls have 7 x 1568 = 10976

Plus the 14 legs of the 7 girls:

10976 + 14 = 10990 .... assuming there are no other legs such as the driver's, etc

[bibster]

could it be just the 14 legs of the girls as all the cats are in the backpacks

[chickenchick]

I reckon that there were 1584 legs on the bus, but I could well be wrong. chch

[chickenchick]

There are 14 legs on the bus (The drivers not on yet) All the big cats and little cats are soft toys.... so they dont count! chch

[chickenchick]

My daughter (14) says the girls are not the only ones on the bus, so it is not possible to say how many legs there are without knowing how many other people are in the bus! chch and Rosie

[greengoddess]

I agree with 10,990

[Tinker,Wales]

This does sound like the old "As I was going to St Ives, I met a man with seven wives, and every wife had seven cats, and every cat had seven kits... Kittens, mittens, cats & wives, how many were going to St Ives?"
The answer , of course is '1'. "I was going to St Ives" Those I met were presumably travelling in the opposite direction.
For this question it states that the girls (etc.,) are on the bus, but asks how many legs are in the bus
So depending on whether there is a driver the answer (as far as we are told) is either 2 or 0.

[factor-fiction]

7 girls = 14 legs
49 backpacks = 0 legs
343 big cats = 1372 legs
2401 ittle cats = 9604 legs
TOTAL= 10990 legs

Plus any legs of driver and other staff/passengers on the bus. Assumes all girls have two legs and all cats have 4 legs. Also assumes all backpacks are on the bus and that all legs are on the bus.

[kscortt]

1582

[msmokey]

2401