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Problem of the Week (Mar 18-Mar 22)

Mar 19, 2019

Her are the problems of the week for the week of March 18th-22nd.  Students, don't forget to have your solutions in to me by Sunday!  Enjoy the warm weather this week!!!

Grade 1-3:

Question: Frankie buys a sandwich that costs $4.55 with a $5.00 bill, 2 quarters, and 1 dime. How much change does she get?

Grade 4-6:

Question: Emily is baking cookies. She arranges the cookie dough blobs on a baking sheet in 7 rows. Every even numbered row has 7 cookies, and every odd row has 8. How many cookies does Emily bake?

Grade 7-9:

Question: Billy and Cody have a pizza-eating contest to see who can eat a whole pizza faster. Billy can eat a sixth of a pizza in 21/2 minutes. Cody can eat an eighth of a pizza in 11/2 minutes. By how many seconds does the pizza-eating contest winner win?

Grade 10-12:

Question: The volume of a cone is 1/3 × the area of its base × its height. Allison orders a cone-shaped hand roll from a sushi restaurant that is made of seaweed filled with rice, eel, and avocado. If the hand roll is 4 centimetres across at its base, its height is 4 centimetres, and a third of it is filled with eel and avocado, what is the volume of the rice inside the hand roll?