Legs and Co....

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Here's a little something to entertain you for a...well, I thought it would be a few minutes, but in my case it turned out to be a LOT of minutes, and I thought I was quite good at this sort of thing.

Please don't post the answer here. But do feel free to gloat if you managed to do this in under three minutes...(apart from Mince, who has three seconds)...




Are you smarter than a ten-year-old?

The challenge is on - can you open the attached spreadsheet?

This is a real kids' maths problem. If you can open the spreadsheet,

you'll see only a small list of people (older than ten-year-olds)

with the correct answer. This is not a trick question.

This is a real maths problem so don't say, 'a bus has no legs'.

 

So here goes;

 

There are 7 girls in 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?

 

The number of legs is the password to unlock the attached excel

spreadsheet. If you open it, add your name to the list and send it on to

see who else can unlock it.

[The Peepmaster]

Oh. I received this in my email and deleted it. I assumed it was a malicious spam message because it had an attachment (and we're always being warned not to open such attachments they often carry viruses etc). I hadn't realised it was from you,...! 

[Fyodor]

Done.

[peter]

 i have been

[Diane CBPFC]

That is an awful lot of cats for each girl to carry around - in Canada there is a restriction on the amount of weight a child can carry based on their age. I think some of those cats will have to be tossed off the bus.

[Malc]

I would like everyone to know there was a very rude line I could have come back with there, but I restrained myself.

[Vulture]

I would like everyone to know there was a very rude line I could have come back with there, but I restrained myself.

For this, I thank you!