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This Friday, June 14th, the United States will celebrate Flag Day. If you check out the many websites devoted to Flag Day, you are sure to learn a lot about the history of the holiday and the history...

In 1896, the first modern Olympics brought in 241 participants. At the 2004 Olympics—when the Olympics returned to Athens—there were 10,625 participants. What is the percent of increase in...

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 2024, when considering just the months. If we instead want to know...

The Los Angeles Dodgers recently became the 2024 World Series Champions! Let’s say the city of Los Angeles decided to host a celebratory parade. The parade route was 3 miles long. Lolly was excited to...

Vanessa bought some round holiday dessert plates to give as a gift to her friend. However, the store only had 5 of the 8 plates she wanted. (All of the plates are the same.) The stack of five plates...

A highly composite number (HCN) is a positive integer with more divisors than any smaller positive integer. Plato considered the HCN 5040 to be an ideal number for dividing things – such as citizens...

Friends Megan and Heather go to different schools. Megan has math class during first period on each of the 180 days she goes to school. She will be in math class a total of 8640 minutes this year...