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A well-known nursery rhyme starts as follow: as i was going to st. ives i met a man with 7 wives. each wife had 7 sacks. each sack had 7 cats. each cat had 7 kittens. how many kittens did the traveler meet?

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I met a man with 7 wives....each wife had 7 sacks (7*7) = 49 sacks.
each sack had 7 cats...(49 * 7) = 343 cats
each cat had 7 kittens...(343 * 7) = 2401 kittens <==
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