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...
January 15th is Hat Day, so put on your wackiest hat and solve this week’s problems! Ariana loves hats. Her favorite top hat is an 18-inch-tall right circular cylinder with a brim that goes all the...
With the 2022 Chapter Competition coming up next week, here are some problems from the 2021 Chapter and Chapter Invitational Competitions for extra practice! (Note: The structure of the 2021...
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 second round of the Major League Baseball play-offs is “best out of 5,” meaning that two teams will play each other until one team wins three games. How many different ways could this play-off...
Temi’s analog clock, shown here, has an hour hand of length 9 in and a minute hand of length 15 in. When Temi’s clock strikes 3 o’clock, what is the length of the segment drawn from the end of the...