In honor of Veteran’s Day, people around the country are flying American flags. For many people, finding flags to buy in stores has been next to impossible due to the great demand. Therefore, many of...
May is National Bike Month, so here are a few problems related to bicycles. Brenden is riding an old-time bicycle that has a back wheel with a diameter of 1 foot and a front wheel with a radius of 1.5...
A town in South Dakota decides to have an “End of the Summer” pool party and invites all of the households in the town that have school aged children. Twenty-seven households are invited to the party...
Bethany and her family are attending the Funville Town Fall Festival, and the first thing they do is get in line for the Maize (corn) Maze. When Bethany gets to the entrance of the Maze she is facing...
For the following problems, assume that the snowballs are perfect spheres. Chiquita and Rhonda are each building a snowman. Rhonda tells Chiquita that she is making each of her 3 balls of snow 20%...
Hydraulic engineering is a subfield of civil engineering that centers around the transport and management of water resources. Hydraulic engineers design things like channels, canals, dams and levees...
The following information and problems were submitted by a MATHCOUNTS volunteer, Emily Koithan. Thank you, Emily! Neuroscientists use a special type of brain scanning called functional magnetic...
For Father’s Day, Martin’s family is having a barbecue. Martin is making the lemonade. If the directions call for 2 tablespoons of mix per quart of water, how many tablespoons of mix are needed to...
Ms. Cross leads The National Math Club at the middle school where she teaches. At the first club meeting of the school year, 60% of the students in attendance were 7th graders. If there was one fewer...
The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. is an obelisk. An obelisk is a tall monument with four gently sloping sides and a pyramid shape on top. The obelisk structure first appeared in Ancient...