Welcome Back!!! Answers are due by noon on Friday, January 9, 2009
Cool Riddles
All the words referred to in the riddles are from this list:
ice, hat, snow, cold, cool, sleet, freeze, snowman, iceberg, glacier, subzero, blizzard, refrigerator, precipitation
1. I am a word. The number of my letters equals 4% (1/25) of the number of years in two centuries. I am _______________.
2. I am the number of letters in a word from the list above. There are only two words in the above list that have fewer letters than that word. I am _______________.
3. I am a word. The number of my letters equals the square root of a gross. A dictionary might help you realize that I am _______________.
4. My name means less than nothing.
(Can that be really so?)
But when you freeze
Just think “degrees”
And then my name you’ll know!
I am _______________.
5. I am a word. The number of my letters equals 1/15th of the number of letters in all of the above words combined. I am _______________.
6. I am the number of letters in a word from the list above. If you take the number of letters in the longest word, add two, and then divide by the number of letters in the smallest word, you get the number of letters in my word. I am _______________.
7. I am a word. There are four words with the same number of letters, and I am one of them. I last longer than anything else on the list, other than the refrigerator. You should realize that I am _______________.
8. Find the item that could be purchased at Dairy Queen. Take the number of letters and divide by two. The number of words with this number of letters is the number of letters that I have. I share more letters with the first word in this puzzle than any other word with the same number of letters as me. I am _______________.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Monday, December 15, 2008
Problems of the Week
Merry Christmas Math Problems
Answers are now due January 3rd by noon. Have a wonderful Winter Break. I will be in Disney World!
1. If candy canes cost .89 a dozen, how much would it cost to buy candy canes for a school with 400 students?
2. Macy's has hired 400 store Santas. If each Santa sees 125 children a day for 30 days, how many children are seen by Macy's Santas?
3. One group of carolers goes to every 6th house in a neighborhood, and another goes to every 8th house. Which house is the first house that they would both have visited?
4. Mr. Green is putting lights around 8 windows; each window is 3.5 feet wide and 5 feet long. How many feet of lights does he need?
5. 10 elves each made 10 xylophones. Each xylophone had 10 keys. They did this for 10 days. How many keys were made by elves? Show in exponential form and solve.
6. Each batch of 48 cookies that Amy makes takes 20 minutes in the oven. If the oven is on for 3 hours and 55 minutes (15 minutes for preheating), how many cookies did Amy make?
7. Beth is making gingerbread men. She uses 2 gumdrops for eyes and 3 gumdrops for buttons for each gingerbread man. She buys 4 packages of gumdrops, each with 120 gumdrops in it. How many dozens of gingerbread men can she make?
8. Brian wants a 7.5 foot Christmas tree. Which of these trees is a better buy? Explain.
A.) All trees $42
B.) $6 a foot
C.) First 4 feet $22; each additional foot $6
9. K-Mart is open Monday through Saturday from 8:00 AM to midnight and Sunday from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM. How many hours is it open in one week?
10. Each large roll of ribbon has 20 yards. Each package takes 3 feet of ribbon. How many packages can be wrapped by one roll?
Answers are now due January 3rd by noon. Have a wonderful Winter Break. I will be in Disney World!
1. If candy canes cost .89 a dozen, how much would it cost to buy candy canes for a school with 400 students?
2. Macy's has hired 400 store Santas. If each Santa sees 125 children a day for 30 days, how many children are seen by Macy's Santas?
3. One group of carolers goes to every 6th house in a neighborhood, and another goes to every 8th house. Which house is the first house that they would both have visited?
4. Mr. Green is putting lights around 8 windows; each window is 3.5 feet wide and 5 feet long. How many feet of lights does he need?
5. 10 elves each made 10 xylophones. Each xylophone had 10 keys. They did this for 10 days. How many keys were made by elves? Show in exponential form and solve.
6. Each batch of 48 cookies that Amy makes takes 20 minutes in the oven. If the oven is on for 3 hours and 55 minutes (15 minutes for preheating), how many cookies did Amy make?
7. Beth is making gingerbread men. She uses 2 gumdrops for eyes and 3 gumdrops for buttons for each gingerbread man. She buys 4 packages of gumdrops, each with 120 gumdrops in it. How many dozens of gingerbread men can she make?
8. Brian wants a 7.5 foot Christmas tree. Which of these trees is a better buy? Explain.
A.) All trees $42
B.) $6 a foot
C.) First 4 feet $22; each additional foot $6
9. K-Mart is open Monday through Saturday from 8:00 AM to midnight and Sunday from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM. How many hours is it open in one week?
10. Each large roll of ribbon has 20 yards. Each package takes 3 feet of ribbon. How many packages can be wrapped by one roll?
Monday, December 8, 2008
Problems of the Week--12/8/2008
Answers are due by noon on Friday. No Problems next week due to exams.
1. Madi and Sydney are making a snowman when Mr. Little stops by. He notices that the three snowballs have diameters with a ratio of 1:2:3. If the diameter of the smallest sphere (the top) is 18 inches, what is the diameter, in feet, of the largest sphere (the bottom) of the snowman? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.
2. What is volume of the middle sphere, in cubic inches? The formula for the volume of a sphere is (4/3)πr3. Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest hundredth.
3. What is the ratio of the volume of the smallest sphere to the volume of the middle sphere? Express your answer in the form a:b.
4. Assuming that our three spheres are placed one on top of the other with no "smushing" or "denting" of the snowballs, how many feet tall is the girls’ snowman?
5. Go to http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/ and make a snowflake. Email your snowflake to me.
1. Madi and Sydney are making a snowman when Mr. Little stops by. He notices that the three snowballs have diameters with a ratio of 1:2:3. If the diameter of the smallest sphere (the top) is 18 inches, what is the diameter, in feet, of the largest sphere (the bottom) of the snowman? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.
2. What is volume of the middle sphere, in cubic inches? The formula for the volume of a sphere is (4/3)πr3. Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest hundredth.
3. What is the ratio of the volume of the smallest sphere to the volume of the middle sphere? Express your answer in the form a:b.
4. Assuming that our three spheres are placed one on top of the other with no "smushing" or "denting" of the snowballs, how many feet tall is the girls’ snowman?
5. Go to http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/ and make a snowflake. Email your snowflake to me.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Problems of the Week
Black Friday and Cyber Monday…
Answers are dure by noon on Friday, December 5th
1. My wife went to Wal-Mart at 3:30am to be in the store in time for the sales at 5:00am. There were people that camped out in the Wal-Mart from 10:00pm Thursday waiting to purchase a TV at 5:00am on Friday morning. They were a little cranky… Anyways, what is the percent difference between my wife’s waiting time compared to the “campers” waiting time?
2. People were able to make great purchases on expensive items, but there was a limit to the number of these items that the store kept in stock for the sale. There were four flat screens TVs on sale for $988, but the original price was $1199.99. What was the percentage taken off of the original price?
3. On Cyber Monday, the same TV that people were fighting over on Friday for $988 were available for an even lower price of $898. What is the additional percentage taken off of the $988 price?
4. Black Friday was great for Wal-Mart, but bad for other electronics companies. For example, Circuit City shares have fallen 24% since the end of November, when the price war started. If at the end of November one share of Circuit City stock was worth $0.13, what is the price of one share now? (Fun Facts: Circuit City shares were worth $7.98 during November 2007, and $27.29 in November 2006! Ouch!)
5. I wanted to purchase new clothes for my wife, so I looked at kohls.com. Their offer was an additional 15% off and free shipping on purchases over $100. I found a cute jacket that was originally $42, but is on sale at 60% off. Shipping on this item is normally $7.95. How much will I save compared to regular price if I am able to find $100 worth of merchandise to buy in order to receive free shipping and the additional 15% off?
Special Bonus!!! What is the Wal-Mart effect?
Answers are dure by noon on Friday, December 5th
1. My wife went to Wal-Mart at 3:30am to be in the store in time for the sales at 5:00am. There were people that camped out in the Wal-Mart from 10:00pm Thursday waiting to purchase a TV at 5:00am on Friday morning. They were a little cranky… Anyways, what is the percent difference between my wife’s waiting time compared to the “campers” waiting time?
2. People were able to make great purchases on expensive items, but there was a limit to the number of these items that the store kept in stock for the sale. There were four flat screens TVs on sale for $988, but the original price was $1199.99. What was the percentage taken off of the original price?
3. On Cyber Monday, the same TV that people were fighting over on Friday for $988 were available for an even lower price of $898. What is the additional percentage taken off of the $988 price?
4. Black Friday was great for Wal-Mart, but bad for other electronics companies. For example, Circuit City shares have fallen 24% since the end of November, when the price war started. If at the end of November one share of Circuit City stock was worth $0.13, what is the price of one share now? (Fun Facts: Circuit City shares were worth $7.98 during November 2007, and $27.29 in November 2006! Ouch!)
5. I wanted to purchase new clothes for my wife, so I looked at kohls.com. Their offer was an additional 15% off and free shipping on purchases over $100. I found a cute jacket that was originally $42, but is on sale at 60% off. Shipping on this item is normally $7.95. How much will I save compared to regular price if I am able to find $100 worth of merchandise to buy in order to receive free shipping and the additional 15% off?
Special Bonus!!! What is the Wal-Mart effect?
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