Name ______
Directions: Solve each problem. You do not have to answer them in order.
1. Take the numbers of fingers (including thumbs) that the average person has and multiply it by the average number of toes a person has. Divide that by one half and add it to the number of months in a year. What is the answer?
2. A mother and father have six sons and each son has one sister. How many people are in the family?
3. I am a two digit number. The sum of my digits equals five. I am an odd number. I am the greatest number that meets this description. What am I?
4. I am a number. If you multiply the number of minutes in a day by the number of hours in a week, you will find half my value. What am I?
5. Brian has fourteen pets. All of his pets are cats and dogs. Brian has four more cats than dogs. How many dogs does he have?
6. This is a mystery number with 6 digits. If you add one to this number it will be a 7 digit number. What is the number?
7. I am a unit of time on our planet. I am 1/7 of a week. What am I?
8. Kids On the Bus. Bus #8 left Horseshoe Bend School partially filled with students, and then stopped to pick up 15 more students at the Park School. It continued on its route as follows:
· At the next 4 stops it dropped off 2 students at each stop.
· Three students got off at the following stop.
· The next 6 stops let off 1 student at each stop.
· Ten students then got off at the New Site after-school program, where 5 kindergarten students boarded the bus.
· The bus then dropped off 7 kids at its last stop, leaving only the driver on board.
How many students were on the bus when it left Horseshoe Bend School?
Answers for GOT PROBLEMS?
1. Take the numbers of fingers (including thumbs) that the average person has and multiply it by the average number of toes a person has. Divide that by one half and add it to the number of months in a year. What is the answer?
10 x 10 = 100
100 divided by ½ = 200
200 + 12 = 212
2. A mother and father have six sons and each son has one sister. How many people are in the family?
1 mother + 1 father + 6 sons + 1 sister = 9 members in the family
3. I am a two digit number. The sum of my digits equals five. I am an odd number. I am the greatest number that meets this description. What am I?
41
4. I am a number. If you multiply the number of minutes in a day by the number of hours in a week, you will find half my value. What am I?
60 minutes x 24 hours =
5. Brian has fourteen pets. All of his pets are cats and dogs. Brian has four more cats than dogs. How many dogs does he have?
6. This is a mystery number with 6 digits. If you add one to this number it will be a 7 digit number. What is the number?
7. I am a unit of time on our planet. I am 1/7 of a week. What am I?
8. Kids On the Bus. Bus #8 left Horseshoe Bend School partially filled with students, and then stopped to pick up 15 more students at the Park School. It continued on its route as follows:
· At the next 4 stops it dropped off 2 students at each stop.
· Three students got off at the following stop.
· The next 6 stops let off 1 student at each stop.
· Ten students then got off at the New Site after-school program, where 5 kindergarten students boarded the bus.
· The bus then dropped off 7 kids at its last stop, leaving only the driver on board.
How many students were on the bus when it left Horseshoe Bend School?