anonymous random guy

Be the first one to get these right and get 10 points!

1. On my way 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, wives and sacks – how many were going to St. Ives?

2. One day, there was a young man that wanted to buy a box from this store.

The box's actual price was $18, but the price tag said it was $21.

The young man gave the owner of the store a $100 bill. Since he didn't have change, the owner went over to his neighbor's house, exchanged the $100 bill for $1's, and gave $79 to the young man.

(the young man dies later... how sad...)

Later that day, the neighbor realizes that the $100 bill the owner of the store gave him was fake, so the owner has no choice but to give another $100 to his neighbor.

The question is: How much money did the owner of the store lose in all?
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Stephanie R

1. none- you said the man was going, not his family and everything else, yet you asked how many kits, cats, wives, and sacks were going, you didn't include the guy
2. $97- he lost $100 that he gave the neighbor, and $18 from the box. But he made $21
or it could be $121
or $89- lost $100 and made $21
ah! I'm confused lol

MELISSA B

1. Just one.
2. $197

Edit: Here's the work for #2. He lost the second $100 he gave his neighbor, the $79 in change he gave the young man, and the $18 for the box's actual price. 100+79+18=197

legionmober

1. 2403--- because the man with the seven wives was on his way to saint ives to buy four more knives to kill his seven wives........you did not finish the end of the riddle...GOSH

2. not enough cause he was too retarded to check if the bill was real... his neighbor too

trainwreckkk

1) None. Only you are going to St. Ives
2)139 dollars? or maybe its really easy hahaha

* CoMmEnTs *

Answer to the first question: One, you didn't say the family was going to St. Ives.

Answer to the first question: He didn't lose any money?

Cindy C

number 1 is none, because the person MET a man on their way to St. ives

number 2 is 119 DOLLARS???????????????????? i dunno