** I posed this question last night to my wife and step daughter and for the next two hours, they were obsessed with solving the question and even sucked two of my step daughters math genius friends into the fray all with different answers! Go figure.
Here is the what should be a relatively simple question;
If 1 Calender year(human) is 7 dog years…how much is 1 Calender Month?
In other words if a dog is 7 years old each human year, how old is the dog each month? **
I think the real riddle here is how your wife and stepdaughter managed to spend two hours wrestling with this. Unless I’m missing something (and I agree with other posters, it’s 7 months) this is quite straightforward.
Disregarding whether it’s true, the question should be simple to work out mentally.
1 year=7 dog years
1 month=X dog months
1 year has been divided by 12, so we just need to divide 7 dog years by 12 to get the answer.
We want to convert the 7 dog years to months first by multuplying 7x12, then divide that by 12 to get X. Wait, multiply by 12 then divide by 12? Nevermind, those cancel out so the answer has to be 7.
LOL that boggled my mind and had me laughing hysterically all night.
Wife, step daughter and her friend , three different formulas and different answers.
The step daughters friend seemed to be on target but took one hell of a strange route with cross multiplying and so on.
Quite comical.
Not sure how one came up with every adult month = 5.83 dog months.
Made for an entertaining cool and rainy evening.