A few people have commented about the math problem from last weekend, so I promise to take it easy on you...
This time.
COMMON BONDS
The following subgroup have something in common. Do you know what it is?
{John Lennon, Michael Crawford}
REBUS
Who or what is represented in the following image?
timberjustlake
We'll have the results next weekend. But for now, let's peek into THE ANSWERS BOX for the Puzzle Corner from July 24.
TRIVIA TIME
Although The Beatles are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame collectively, Ringo Starr is not a member of that august body as a solo act. The other three members (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison) are.
A MATH PROBLEM
Barbie might have once said "Math is hard," and apparently a few Free Choice readers agreed.
But as Hercule Poirot would say, "It is good exercise for the little grey cells."
The math problem was:
"As I was going to Saint Ives
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks.
Each sack had seven cats.
Each cat had seven kittens.
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, how many were COMING from Saint Ives?"
The answer is 2752. Follow:
7 cats between 7 sacks is 49 cats. Each cat had 7 kittens, equalling 343 baby felines.
Multiply this by seven wives and add in the mates and one odd husband. Or in other words:
1 (wife) x 7 (cats) = 7 (cats) x 7 (sacks) = 49 (cats).
49 (cats) x 7 (kittens per cat) = 343 baby felines.
343 (kittens) + 49 (cats) = 392 total felines.
392 (all cats) x 7 (wives, since all have amount of sacks, cats, and kittens) = 2744 total felines, which is a heck of a lot of cats!
2744 (felines) + 7 (wives) + 1 (husband) = 2752.
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