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Dawn is planning a vacation. The dates of her vacation are September 18 through September 24, which will require her to take five 8-hour vacation days off from work. She accrues three-and-a-third...

Per the American Pie Council, January 23 is National Pie Day! This is not to be confused with Pi Day, which celebrates mathematical symbol π. National Pie Day is a celebration of a beloved tasty treat...

Today is Pi Day! Below are a few questions to celebrate. If June ate 1/4 of 2/3 of 1/2 of a pie, what fraction of the whole pie did she eat? Express your answer as a common fraction. To determine what...

The lunchroom workers at Guffey Middle School can move a total of 600 students through 5 lunch lines in exactly one hour. How many students move through each lunch line per minute? With 600 students...

In June, MATHCOUNTS joined the Data Science 4 Every­one Commitment Campaign to build capacity for K-12 data science ed­ucation. As part of this commitment, MATHCOUNTS will create and share additional...

Mother's Day is a holiday honoring mothers and is celebrated on the second Sunday in May in the United States. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson declared the first national Mother's Day. Mother's Day...

In June, MATHCOUNTS joined the Data Science 4 Every­one Commitment Campaign to build capacity for K-12 data science ed­ucation. As part of this commitment, MATHCOUNTS will create and share additional...

A favorite ride in amusement parks has been the merry-go-round, also called a carousel. During the early Twentieth Century, the golden age of the carousel, there were about 6000 machines with finely...

Tony’s Pizzeria sells three sizes of pizzas: small, medium and large. The standard crust size is 1 inch wide, no matter what size pizza you get. At Tony’s, a small pizza is 10 inches, has four slices...

Gretchen is going to make a witch’s hat for Halloween. Her pattern consists of a right circular cone without a base attached to a circle with a hole cut out of the middle, as shown below. The hole is...