My piggy bank has been my trusted repository for some time. I have used it exclusively to save those little extra pennies, nickels, and dimes that I have received as change when I purchase things. One day I had need of some cash to buy some school supplies before going to classes, so I [...]
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Mama Squirrel found a bag of nuts in the driveway of the house near her tree home. She decided to separate the nuts into equal portions for her children.When she tried putting 6 nuts on each plate, one squirrel baby was left out and received no nuts at all. (So there was one sad little [...]
Shanell’s favorite hobby is baking cakes and cookies to serve her friends and family during holiday occasions. She often buys cashews, pecans, almonds, and walnuts to use in her recipes. One week, she bought one pound of cashews and two pounds of pecans, and paid $2.40. The next week she bought four pounds of almonds [...]
Fred Flintstone and his buddy, Barney Rubble, are coaches in a football league for young kids during summer vacation. Fred’s team is called Fred’s Falcons and Barney’s is called Barney’s Bears. Rivalry is always intense between them as they are the best teams in the league. Whichever of these two teams wins the game against [...]
My neighbor, George, owns seven cats. The three oldest cats (Liberty, Lucky and Alexander) are 100% black and the only outdoor cats in the group. The sum of their weights equals the sum of the weights of the four indoor cats (Sassy, Moonlight, Bubba and Randy).Alexander weighs 2 oz. more than Lucky, who in turn [...]
The second half of a famous “Mother Goose” nursery rhyme goes something like this: The King was in the counting-house, Counting out his money, The Queen was in the parlour, Eating bread and honey, The maid was in the garden, Hanging out the clothes, When down came a little bird And snapped off her nose! [...]
At the beginning of January, Susita had some money in her savings account.During each month she was able to deposit enough from her allowance to double the amount currently in the account. But she had a loan to pay off, requiring her to withdraw $10 from the account monthly. She had to repeat this procedure [...]
His real name was Frank Johnson, but everybody who followed baseball in the Tri-County Baseball League just called him “Fireball”. He was definitely the best pitcher on his team, the Bensonville Beagles, and probably the best in the whole 10-team league. He earned that nickname, and the respect of every batter who had to face him, [...]
If you were solving AlgPoW problems from the Math Forum in the year 2001, and in particular the one titled “The Professors’ Primes“, (May 7) you met three of my favorite university professors: Drs. Ken Travers, Peter Braunfeld, and Wilson Zaring. Before I left them to finish their lunch in the cafeteria that day, I inquired [...]
Writing a math answer for a Problem of the Week is very different from writing an essay in English class or a term paper in History class, so we would like to give you some guidelines. You write only one document, but we receive sometimes as many as 300-400 (or more) answers per week to [...]