Let me disagree, at least mildly. The question was NOT asking how many
feet were actually in the bag. The mens feet weren't in the bag, nor
were the Kittens. Just simply, "How Many Feet are there?"

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>>> Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]> 10/23/03 11:35AM >>>
Gavin writes:

> Michael gets it:
>  > what's the catch?
>  >
>  >  6,060
>
>  That's the right answer.  I forgot the parents in my calculation
(one of
>  the gotchas besides the feet of the men which is pretty obvious).
>
>  6 * 6 * 6 * 7 * 4 + (2 * 6) == 6060

Let me disagree, at least mildly. The question of the number of feet
revolves
wholly around how you interpret the question. If the question is one of
the
total number of feet for every animal mentioned in the text, then the
answer is
6060. If, on the other foot, the total number of number of feet is
meant only
for the people standing there holding the bags, the answer is 876. The
fact
that the cats each had six kittens becomes an irrelevancy, an
adjectival
phrase, just as if you had added that each cat had grey fur.

Wirt Atmar

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