Hard Riddle: 7 Men Have 7 Wives. Each Man And Each Wife Have 7 Children. What’s The Total Number Of People?
We have two differant solution for this riddle. Let’s look the all answer step by step.
Answer 1 Solution 1:
7 men’s have 7 wives , so that will be 7 + 7 = 14.
Then, each wife got 7 children more, so that will be 7 x 7 = 49.
Then we add the children to the men’s and wives and we get 49 + 14 = 63.
So total number of people is 63.
Answer 2 Solution 2:
For children: 7 Men * 7 Wives * 7 Child = 343 people
For Wives: 7 Men * 7 Wives = 49 people
For Men: 7 Men = 7 people
Let’s find the sum of all people.
343 + 49 + 7 = 399 People
7 MEN @ 7 CHILDREN =8PEOPLE X 7=56
7WIVES@7CHILDREN=8PEOPLE X7=56
THEN;
TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE= 56+56=112PEOPLE
TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE =112
Good
7 men + 7wives= 14
Each man and wife 7 children
Each couple 7 children *7= 49
49+14=63
Another option, 7men +7wives= 14
Each man and each wife 7 children,
Each man, 7children =49
Each women, 7 children=49
49+49+14=112
Correct man
It didn’t say ‘7 men had 7 wives each’ that would have been 1 man having 7 wives, So 7 men having 7 wives, mean 1 man and his wife.
So if it’s 1 man, why do you say 7 men then? 🙂
Each man and each wife, Unless if you no sabi wetin Each means.
lol? it didn’t even say that “each man have 7 wives” it says “7 men have 7 wives” people who think this hard enough would conclude that there are 7 couples and each couple has 14 children (since it says EACH MAN and EACH WIFE has 7 children” so no, he’s correct. please do check your answer.
Thank you….this is what I got too
how 8?
That’s true
The answer is 21 people.
A man and a wife representing a couple. There are 7 couples altogether and each couple with a child. Therefore, 7+7+7=21
Simple
The answer is 21 people.
A man and a wife representing a couple. There are 7 couples altogether and each couple with a child. Therefore, 7+7+7=21
Simple
Answer 1 solution 1 would be correct except you ignored the number of children for the man 63+49=112
The key is how many kids the men had, we know that the 7 men each had 7 kids or 49 total kids. The question then becomes is it 1 wife or 7 wives for each husband. If it’s 7 wives each, that’s 49 wives each having 7 kids or 343 total kids. Well I am no math wiz but 49 kids does not equal 343 kids. Who could have fathered these kids, there are no other men mentioned? However, if it’s 1 wife each, that’s 7 wives each having 7 kids or 49 total kids just like the men.
7 men + 7 wives + 49 kids = 63 total people
p.s. If Solution 2 is going to calculate the wives’ kids based upon how the problem is written, 7m X 7w X 7k = 343wk then it should also calculate the men’s kids the same way, 7m X 7k= 49mk and add them to the equation. Solution 2 should be 7m + 49w + 343wk+ 49mk = 448 total people.
7 men +7wives=14
Each man and each wife have 7children =7*7=49 +14=63 people. Meaning each couple have 7 children.
Another solution, 7men and 7wives= 14
Each man have 7 children =7*7=49
Each woman have 7 children =7*7=49 total 14+49+49=112
The key is how many kids the men had, we know that the 7 men each had 7 kids or 49 total kids. The question then becomes is it 1 wife or 7 wives for each husband. If it’s 7 wives each, that’s 49 wives each having 7 kids or 343 total kids. Well I am no math wiz but 49 kids does not equal 343 kids. Who could have fathered these kids, there are no other men mentioned? However, if it’s 1 wife each, that’s 7 wives each having 7 kids or 49 total kids just like the men.
7 men + 7 wives + 49 kids = 63 total people
The tricks in this riddle are: the title “wife” and terms ‘each’ and ‘HAVE’
The riddle states:
Part A
1. 7 wives: note; not 7 women
2. 7 men: note; not 7 husbands
Part B
1. Each man and Each wife HAVE 7 children: note; not HAS
Key word there, is HAVE which points out plural(couple) possessiveness.
Had it been HAS then we would have drawn out that every man separately and every wife separately has 7 children each.
Now with those grammar conclusions:
This becomes
Each man has 7 children with each wife there:
Thus Total number of Children: 7*7*7=343
Total number of men: 7
Total number of wives: 7
***But remember to be wives there must be husbands***
Thus number of husbands: 7
Total number of people therefore 343+21=364
It has to be 1man with a married woman
clue: 7 men have 7 wifes.(initialization) its like “all the things inside this house are belongs to all of us.”
7 = men
7 = wives
? = child
men + wives = 14
clue: “each man and each wife have 7 children”
let the 1st man = 7 children on 1st wife, 2nd man = 7 children on 1st wife also and so on… so each wife = 49 children from 7 men.
therefore the total number of children is:
7(wives) * 49 = 343
so now:
children = 343
men = 7
women = 7
total = 357
7 men have 7 wives. Means they’re not exclusive pairs of man & wife.
The scenario that satisfies all statements in the passage is that each man has 1 child with each wife.
So, there are 49 children. Plus 14 adults. 63 people.
7 men have 7 wives meaning each man has 1 wife.
7men= 7wives
Each man has 7 children and each wife has 7 children.
1man+his7children+1wife+her7children
1+7+1+7=16 people in each family.
Remember we have 7 families
Total no of people =16×7
=112 people