Awesome Urban Legend...
...is in fact true. My favorite Urban Legend detectives www.snopes.com have a sweet story about a kid who is late to class, mistakes two unproven statistics equations for homework and goes on to solve them, without knowing that he has done anything exceptional. It smacks a bit of a story your grandma would tell you, as a precursor to saying somthing like "its all about positivity" and pointing to a motivational poster of a monkey holding a bannana and giving you a thumbs up. But, whatever, I like my grandma.
http://www.snopes.com/college/homework/unsolvable.asp
An entry involving statistics! Be still my heart! Just to let you know, as the good Snopes folks inform us,this wasn't exactly some high school kid but a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford. Also, his prof Jerzy Neyman, was one of the most important figures in statistics in the first half of the century. Neyman and his colleague, Egon Pearson, were vociferous critics of Fisher's Null Hypothesis Testing (Fisher was a HUGH figure in early statistics-Fisher and Egon's father Karl used to yell at each other at Royal Statistical Society Meetings). Null Hypothesis Testing continues to be taught to every undergrad psych student and continues to be "untaught" by statisticans whenever they get the chance. There. I've said my piece. You may all return to Guitar Hero. Hey! Where did everybody go?