This is a 5th grade math problem. This is not a trick question. This is a real math problem so don't say that the bus doesn't have legs.
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.
The bus driver is not in the bus at this time.
Question:
How many legs are there in the bus?
See if you can get the right answer. Leave your answer as a comment!!!
Garden Gnome
©2006-2009
I'll bet you thought I would forget this very important day, didn't you? Well I didn't and I do have a very good excuse for not posting earlier. See my sometimers kicked in. I got up a bit later this morning just after 7 am clearly feeling rather horrible with the onset of yet another sinus attack. Despite wanting to crawl back into bed I made a large pot of green tea. While I waited for the kettle I got a bit of relief from a nice saline based nasal spray I found. From there I settled down to drop EC and blog, with the food channel on followed by Unsolved Mysteries then back to the food channel all the while getting up and down with no clear focus. I got pictures ready for a couple of entries on Mom's Cafe Home Cooking, answered a few emails, made a graphic for today's post. I have seriously been all over the place today! So this post has been waiting on the back burner waiting for me to write something somewhat intelligent but it has taken until now to realize I needed to do that.
Today is 03/03/09 which has some significance in the mathematical community. It means the day and the month are the square roots of the last two digits of the year. See, 3 x 3 = 9 or √9 = 3 or 32 = 9. That funky looking sign is the sign for square root. A square root of a number is a number multiplied by itself that gives you that number. Three is the square root of 9 (eg. 3 x 3 = 9). Four is the square root of 16. Five is the square root of 25 and so on. And that's about all my brain can take at the moment but I do wish you a very happy Square Root Day!
Garden Gnome
©2006-2009
