A limerick

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12 +144+20+(3*2)/7*55ƒ??

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Cell phones suck at math

@paden-cash?ÿ

Show off .... ?????ÿ

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.

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There once was a man from Nantucket....

@jitterboogie?ÿ

@flga-2-2 50

Stop teasing...

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I'm just a biologist. ?????ÿ

@jitterboogie?ÿ

..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.

@jitterboogie?ÿ

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Posted by: @paden-cash

@jitterboogie?ÿ

..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.

@jitterboogie?ÿ

Nine to the first challenge and 50 to the second.

@holy-cow?ÿ

Posted by: @holy-cow

A test of reading comprehension, not arithmetic, on a simple interpretation.

However, what if the man came from a side path that joins in the direction going to St. Ives? We don't have enough information to fully analyze this situation.

@bill93?ÿ

Fantastic!?ÿ That little rhyme has always bothered me for the same reason.

@holy-cow?ÿ 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?ÿ do a internet search (like Bill93 does to answer) and see what you find.