HI PPLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ok all you have to do is create a riddle and try to solve the one before you. it'll be fun! i'll start...... when you pull me, you enter. when you push me, you leave. I am the boundary between old and new places. i go to the right, i go up down left, and sometimes split in half! what am i?
While on my way to St. Ives, I saw a man with 7 wives. Each wife had 7 sacks. Each sack had 7 cats. Each cat had 7 kittens. Kitten, cats, sacks, wives, How many were going to St. Ives?
So there were 7 wives = 7 so each wive had 7 sacks, each containing 7 cats. which would be 1 x 7 x 7 = 49 per wife. times that by 7 and you got 343. You can do the rest?
Considering your CLOSE to the answer. I'll just complete it to where you are.
Sacks: 7 Adult cats: 49 (7 cats per sack, of which there are 7) Kittens: 343 (7 kittens per cat, of which there are 49) Total number of entities per wife: 399 (7 + 49 + 343) There are 7 wives, so we multiply 399 by 7, which equals 2,793.
Ill just finish it xD Pretty confusing since i messed up a bit -.-
Answer:
Sacks: 7 Adult cats: 49 (7 cats per sack, of which there are 7) Kittens: 343 (7 kittens per cat, of which there are 49) Total number of entities per wife: 399 (7 + 49 + 343) There are 7 wives, so we multiply 399 by 7, which equals 2,793.
Narrator: 1 The man whom he met: 1
Now we add the Narrator and the man to the bunch (2,793 + 2) And the grand total is 2,795!
Here is one. A farmer somewhere in California owns a pear tree and supplies fruit to the local groceries store. Today he is planning to sell a shipment. On the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has 12 boughs. Each bough has 6 twigs. Each twig bears 1 fruit. How many plums will the man ship over to the store?
I learned a different answer when I first heard this riddle, which was 1, because it says as I was going to St. Ives. BUT, then I did some research. It turns out that there could be many different answers to the riddle because it's not really clear.
Answers
All potential answers to this riddle are based on its ambiguity because the riddle only tells us the group has been "met" on the journey to St. Ives and gives no further information about its intentions, only those of the narrator. As such, any one of the following answers is plausible, depending on the intention of the other party: If the group that the narrator meets is assumed not to be traveling to St. Ives (this is the most common assumption),[1] the answer would be one person going to St. Ives; the narrator. If the narrator met the group as they were also travelling to St. Ives (and were overtaken by the narrator, plausible given the large size of the party),[1] the answer in this case is all are going to St. Ives; see below for the mathematical answer. If the narrator and the group were all travelling to St. Ives, the answer could also be all except the narrator and the man since the question is ambiguous about whether it is asking for the total number of entities travelling or just the number of kits, cats, sacks and wives. This would give an answer of 2,800 â" 2 fewer than the mathematical answer below. Two is also a plausible answer. This would involve the narrator meeting the man who is assumed to be travelling to St. Ives also, but plays on a grammatical uncertainty, since the riddle states only that the man has seven wives (and so forth), but does not explicitly mention whether the man is actually accompanied by his wives, sacks, cats, and kittens. Yet another plausible is zero, once again playing on a grammatical uncertainty. The last line of the riddle states "kits, cats, sacks, wives ... were going to St. Ives?" Although the narrator clearly states he is going to St. Ives, by definition he is not one of the kits, cats, sacks, or wives, and based on the common assumption that the party was not going to St. Ives, the answer is zero.
Indeed, i heard the riddle as well. But i had to do some research on it. So i just copied from the first answer that was the one used on me. So i went with it, the other ones are to simple :/
