A bus carrying 7 children to school. Every child has 7 backpacks. In each bag are 7 cats. Each cat has 7 kittens. Fortunately, each has as many legs as Mother Nature planned . Question: How many legs / paws are on the bus?
It is definitely a trick question. The version I heard is:
As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks, and in each sack was seven cats. Each cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks and wives - how many were going to St. Ives?
This has been asked several times before. Asuming the phrase 'on the bus' means 'in the bus' , the information given points to an answer of 10990.
However it depends whether the bus is moving: assuming the bus isn't being driven by one of the children then we should add 2 more legs for the driver. So it could be 10992.
Of course there could be other answers. There may be other adults or pets on the bus too.
Newtron- I think the St Ives riddle was different- because the man going to St Ives met people who were going the other way.