Mrs. Hillstead has planned a dinner for 15 people this Thanksgiving. She bought 22.5 lbs of turkey, plus potatoes, cranberry salad, rolls and all of the traditional holiday food. Unfortunately, her daughter forgot to tell her that she was bringing three of her friends. If Mrs.

November 9 – November 15 was Children’s Book Week! Here are some problems to celebrate.

Bridgette wants to be a princess for Halloween. When she gets to the costume store, she realizes there are many options. There are five different princess crowns, eight different princess dresses, and three different pairs of princess shoes.

As November (the 11^th month) gets underway, it’s the perfect time to focus on 11. Eleven is the fourth prime number, and there is a fun divisibility rule for 11. For any integer, insert alternating “–” and “+” signs between the consecutive pairs of digits, starting with a “–” sign between the left-most pair of digits. For example, for the number 91,828 we would have 9 – 1 + 8 – 2 + 8.

Suppose Leif can rake his entire yard in 2.5 hours, while his younger sister, Autumn, can do it in 4 hours by herself. How many minutes will it take the two of them to rake the entire yard if they are working together, to the nearest whole number?

As September is winding down, we can see that nine of the twelve calendar months of the year have passed. This is 9/12 = 3/4 = 75% of 2020, when considering just the months. If we instead want to know what percent of the days in 2020 have passed at the end of the last day of September, what would that percentage be? Express your answer to the nearest tenth.

It’s a staple of American school lunches: peanut butter sandwiches (usually with jelly, too). The average American child will eat 1500 peanut butter sandwiches by the time she graduates from high school! (On average, that’s one sandwich every four days.) It takes 850 peanuts to make an 18-oz jar of peanut butter, and an average sandwich has two ounces of peanut butter on it.

When most of us think of the Fourth of July, we think of fireworks!  Over the years, fireworks have become more and more elaborate.  However, this is also the time of year when safety agencies are concerned about the improper use of fireworks and the possible injuries that can occur.  Fireworks are safer now than they used to be but can still cause very serious injuries. In 1990, there were 17.8 injuries per 100,000 pounds of fireworks.

Stephen spent this past weekend helping his mother get some yard work done. His first project was to build a rectangular planter with the exterior dimensions of 6 inches by 12 inches by 18 inches. He originally planned to use wood that was 1 inch thick. However, he mistakenly bought wood that was 2 inches thick.

Memorial Day has always been the unofficial start of summer. Here are some problems about some things we love in hot weather!

Two local supermarkets sell watermelons grown at McDowell’s farm. But Biggy Market sells their watermelons for $3.99 each, regardless of size, whereas Harmless Trail Market sells their watermelons for $0.19 per pound.  For what weight will a watermelon at Harmless Trail cost the same as any watermelon at Biggy? If the largest watermelon grown at McDowell’s farm weighs 18 pounds, at which place should you buy your watermelons?