As I was walking to St.Ives, I met a man with seven wives, the seven wives had seven sacks, the sevem sacks had seven cats, the sevem cats had seven kitts. With kitts, cats,sacks,wives, how many were going to St.Ives?
2006-07-02 06:54:31 · 30 answers · asked by inmyownreality23323 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
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2006-07-02 06:58:02 · update #1
Only you are going there.
That cat farm must be going in the opposite direction if you met them.
2006-07-02 06:57:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-02 16:45:47 · answer #2 · answered by linkin_park_1378 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-02 16:29:58 · answer #3 · answered by akviswan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-02 14:01:39 · answer #4 · answered by lump10670 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-02 13:58:30 · answer #5 · answered by Shahbaaz Ali K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer to the riddle is usually said to be one: the person reciting the rhyme was going to St Ives, and everyone else was going the opposite way. Depending on how the question is interpreted, the answer could also be zero: the person travelling to St Ives is not any of "kits, cats, sacks, wives". Even with this interpretation, however, the answer could be one: in the case the narrator is a wife.
Going away from St Ives were: one (1) man, seven (7) wives, seven times seven (49) sacks, seven times seven times seven (343) cats, and seven times seven times seven times seven (2,401) kits, making a total of 8 humans, 49 sacks, and a somewhat implausible 2,744 felines; a grand total of 2,800 kits, cats, sacks, and wives (or 2,801 if you include the man). However, as "sacks" are inanimate objects, 2752 presumably living creatures were headed away from St. Ives.
It should be noted that, although it is usually assumed that the man with the wives was going away from St Ives, it may well be true that they were going to St Ives: obviously, on my way to a place, I can meet somebody going to the same place; if they were dragging along sacks filled with 2,744 cats and kittens, it would be easy to overtake them. In that case, the answer is 2800 or 2801.
Another solution derives from the fact that the narrator mentions that the man has seven wives, but does not explicitly state that the wives are present, nor their sacks, cats, and kits. If the man is travelling to St. Ives and not away, the answer could be two, one, or zero (depending on if you count only wives, sacks, cats, and kits, and if the narrator be a wife).
Yet another answer is that one is in fact the proper answer, given that the man and his cadre of wives, cats, and kittens could be living in a house along the way to St Ives, and the narrator simply paused along the way at his house.
Another solution would treat the riddle as a red herring, and state that the average number of wives, sacks, cats and kittens travelling to a large market town in the 18th century could easily number much more than the 2801 mentioned in the riddle.
2006-07-02 14:01:38 · answer #6 · answered by icekey87 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Including the man-29
2006-07-02 14:10:25 · answer #7 · answered by colonel 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With kittens, cats, sacks, wives, and the man there was nobdy going to St.Ives except you.so just one, 1, and uno.
2006-07-02 14:46:57 · answer #8 · answered by jake_black94 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just 1.
2006-07-02 13:57:42 · answer #9 · answered by Tony Salinas 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
none. you are the only person going to St Ives ..but u don't have any sacks, cats or kitts
2006-07-02 14:40:45 · answer #10 · answered by unalla 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋