Monday, March 03, 2008

Math Word Problem - Answer

10,990

7 girls on the bus x 2 legs = 14 legs
7 girls x 7 backpacks each = 49 total backpacks
7 big cats per back pack x 4 legs each x 49 backpacks = 1,372 big cat legs
7 little cats per big cat x 7 big cats per bag = 49 little cats per bag
49 little cats x 4 legs per cat x 49 bags = 9,604

14 girl legs
+
1,372 big cat legs
+
9,604 little cat legs
=
10,990

Note - you can't assume there is a bus driver since that was not stated in the word problem

Thanks for playing (to those of you that were brave enough to post your answer!)

1 comment:

Allie said...

Good job Paige! I'm impressed, I guess I ran out of fingers. :)