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A limerick
Posted by dave-lindell on June 29, 2021 at 7:10 pmA dozen, a gross, and a score
Plus three times the square root of four
All divided by seven
Plus five times eleven
Is ______ squared, and no more
Can you write the equation and fill in the blank?
john-nolton replied 2 years, 10 months ago 9 Members · 18 Replies- 18 Replies
9
12 +144+20+(3*2)/7*55??
Cell phones suck at math
Show off …. ????
Ambiguity is the father of trouble
For meanings that are triple or double
Lead to systems failures
And managers’ wailures
Turning good ideas into rubble.
There once was a man from Nantucket….
@flga-2-2 50
Stop teasing…
I’m just a biologist. ????
..that carried his lunch in a bucket..
- Posted by: @paden-casj
Agreed.
And I’m amazed I could get that answer before reading yours, without paper. I’m getting less able to hold stuff in my head.
. - I hope everyone has a great day; I know I will!
- Posted by: @paden-cash
..that carried his lunch in a bucket..
After eating his lunch
With a chew and a crunch
He’d pull out a bottle and suck it.
. Nine to the first challenge and 50 to the second.
As I was going to St. Ives,I met a man with seven wives,Each wife had seven sacks,Each sack had seven cats,Each cat had seven kits:Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,How many were there going to St. Ives?@holy-cow This simple little nursery rhyme has been around for several hundred years (at least).
The way I was taught 70+ years ago, was “As I was going to St Ives, I met a man…
So if you were going he must have been coming from St Ives, because you met him.
So the answer to your last line “How many were there going to St. Ives”
ONE!
There are other problems like this but some people want to read things into the problem.
Remember the hanging cable problem?
JOHN NOLTON
PS do a internet search (like Bill93 does to answer) and see what you find.
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