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THE PROBLEM OF THE WEEK IS WORTH 5 BONUS POINTS ON TESTS/QUIZZES. ALL ANSWERS MUST BE TURNED IN
BY THRUSDAY OF THAT WEEK. STUDENTS SHOULD PUT THIER FIRST AND LAST NAME AND PERIOD ON A SHEET
OF PAPER AND TURN IT IN. NO LATE ANSWERS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
***OTHER THAN THE POW'S THERE IS NO OTHER EXTRA CREDIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!**
WEEK OF MAY 5-9
QUESTION:
Jason called six people to tell them a secret; they each called and told four maore, adn then
those people each called adn told four more. How many people (including Jason) now know the
scret?
WEEK OF MARCH 31 - APRIL 4
QUESTION: Gloria had a rectangular garden plot last year with an area of 60 square feet. This
year Gloria's plot is one foot wider and three feet shorter than last year's garden, BUT it was
the same area. What were the dimensions of the garden last year?
WEEK OF MARCH 17-21 **DUE FRIDAY**
QUESTION:
Stacey and McCrae have both agreed to mow half of a lawn. This lawn is a rectangle, 25 feet by
45 feet. Their lawn mower cuts a 2 feet wide path. If Stacey starts at a corner and makes a
path around the outside, how many times should she go around to cut one half of the lawn?
EXAM POW
WEEK OF MARCH 3-7
QUESTION:
Milk that has 5% butterfat is mixed with milk that has 2% butterfat.
How much of each is needed to obtain 60 gallons of milk that has 3%
butterfat?
WEEK OF FEBRUAY 25-29
Question:
BATTER UP!!
Lee Viramonte, a professional baseball player, is planning to ask his manager for a raise based
on his performance improvements in the past year. Below are his batting statistics for 2000 and
2001.
2000 2001
at bats 642 625
hits 161 180
home runs 36 63
RBIs 119 141
Based on these numbers, what statistical argument should Lee use to convince his manager to give
him a raise?
For your short answer:
1.) State Lee’s batting average for both 2000 and 2001 . Round your answer to the nearest
thousandth.
2.) State the percentage increase in the number of Lee’s home runs and RBIs from the year 2000
to the year 2001.
WEEK OF FEBRUARY 11-18
ANSWER: 83.3 drops
QUESTION:
If a doctor prescribes 30 units of insulin in 500 mL to be administered over 2 hours, how many
drops per minute should be administered, if the set is calibrated to deliver 20 drops per mL?
WEEK OF JANUARY 28/ FEBRUARY 1
ANSWER: 27,760 onuces
KUDOS to the following students: SAMA KAHOOK, STEPHEN TAKACS, AUBREE GINN, CONNOR PETERSON,
DANIEL BUSSEYJEREMY OWENS, WILLIAM HARRIS, LAURA BETH MESCHKE, CHRIS WATKINS
QUESTION:
Coburg Dairy delivered 195 gallons, 77 quarts, and 21 pints of dairy products yesterday. How
many ounces of dairy products did the company deliver?
WEEK OF JANUARY 7-11
THERE WILL NOT BE A POW THIS WEEK BECAUSE THERE IS NOT A QUIZ/TEST ON FRIDAY.
EXAM POW *DUE MONDAY 12/17*
QUESTION:
SANTA WAS THINKING THAT HIS REINDEER TEAM RAN A LITTLE SLOW LAST CHRISTMAS EVE. HE WANTS TO
ADJUST THE LINE-UP TO SEE IF HE CAN MAKE HIS DELIVERIES AND RETURN TO THE NORTH POLE, MRS.
CLAUSE, AND A WARM FIRE A LITTLE FASTER THIS YEAR.
THE SLEIGH NEEDS EIGHT REINDEER TO PULL SANTA AND THE TOYS. ON FOGGY CHRISTMAS EVE’S RUDOLPH
WILL BE HITCHED TO THE FRONT OF THE TEAM. IN HOW MANY WAYS CAN SANTA ARRANGE HIS TEAM OF
REINDEER?
“NOW DASHER! NOW DANCER! NOW, PRANCE AND VIXEN! ON COMET! ON, CUPID! ON, DONNER AND BLITZEN!
TO THE TOP OF THE PORCH! TO THE TOP OF THE WALL! NOW DASH AWAY! DASH AWAY! DASH AWAY ALL!!”
WEEK OF DECEMBER 3-6
ANSWER: 20th birthday
QUESTION:
Your eccentric Aunt Isabella sends money to each niece and nephew on his or her birthday. She
gives each child $10.00 on his or her first birthday. On each birthday thereafter, you and your
cousins get $20.00 more than on the birthday before. How old will you be when you have received
a total of $4,000 from Aunt Isabella?
WEEK OF NOVEMBER 12-20 (2 extra days due to change in quiz date)
ANSWER: 11 hot dogs
QUESTION:
Mr. Macho, my Great Dane, ate 125 hot dogs over a five-day period. Each day he ate seven more
hot dogs than on the previous day. How many hot dogs did he eat on the first day??
WEEK OF NOVEMBER 5-9
ANSWER: page 126 & 127
QUESTION:
You lost your page when you closed your book, but you remembered that the product of the pages
showing was 16,002.
What were the page numbers?
WEEK OF OCTOBER 29 - NOVEMBER 2
ANSWER:
FEMALE MALE
1 44
4 36
7 28
10 20
13 12
16 4
KUDOS to the following students: Mason McDaniel, Connor Peterson, D.J. Fuller, Laura Beth
Mescke, Grant Pagan, Will Watson
QUESTION:
I shouldn’t have watched that horror movie last night on TV. It gave me the strangest
nightmare. I dreamed I was trapped on a planet of giant insects with Mega-Flies as beg as
elephants! I thought it was weird that the female Mega-Flies had 8 legs and the male Mega-Flies
only had 3 legs. In my dream, I was caught in the web of a Mega-Spider who would not let me go
unless I could solve his problem: How many Mega-Flies would he need to catch if he eats 140
Mega-Fly legs each day? He wants to know ALL the possibilities! What are they?
WEEK OF OCTOBER 22-26
ANSWER: 119 WINGS
KUDOS to the following students: Chris Watkins, Matt Chiera, Shelby Rogers, Connor Peterson, adn
Nicole Early
QUESTION:
At Annie’s Home-Cooked Chicken Wings Restaurant, chicken wings are served by the bucket.
The “Biggest Bucket O’ Wings” is really big! Let’s find out how many wings are in it.
If they’re removed two at a time, one wing will be left. If they’re removed three at a time,
two wings will remain. If they’re removed four, five, or six at a time three, four, and five
wings respectively, will remain. If they’re taken out seven at a time, no wings will be left
over.
What is the smallest possible number of wings that could be in the bucket? How do you know?
WEEK OF OCTOBER 1-5
ANSWER: 381, 813, 831,243, and 423
QUESTION:
I am thinking of a three-digit number. It is an odd multiple of three, and the product of its
digits is 24. It is larger than 15 squared. What are all of the numbers I could be thinking of?
WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 24-28
ANSWER: 17 SHEEP WILL BE SHORN BEFORE ERIC.
QUESTION:
Eric the sheep is lining up to be shorn before the hot summer ahead. There are 50 sheep in
front of him. Eric can’t be bothered with waiting in the line properly, so he decides to sneak
towards the front.
Every time a sheep is taken to be shorn, Eric then sneaks past 2 sheep. How many sheep will be
shorn before Eric?
WEEK OF September 17-21
ANSWER: 11 times
Question:
How many times do the hour and minute hands cross in a 12 hour period of time?
WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 10-14
ANSWER: 45 pennies; 1 quarter; 2 dimes; 2 nickles
QUESTIONS:
I’m looking for two ways to change a dollar bill using exactly 50 coins. The first way is 40
pennies, 8 nickels, and 2 dimes. What’s a second way?
WEEK OF AUGUST 27-31
QUESTION:
Mattie found out that she would be in the advanced Literature class the following year. On the
last day of school, June 12th, the students were given a summer reading list. The eight books
on the list were to be read by the first day of school, September 1st.
Mattie and her friends calculated that on average, there are 225 pages per book. What is the
minimum number of pages that must be read per day to ensure completion by the first day of
school?
WEEK OF AUGUST 13-24 (2 WEEKS DUE TO NO QUIZ/TEST THIS WEEK)
KUDOS TO THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS FOR TURNING IN THE CORRECT ANSWER: CALEB YARBO, GRANT PAGAN,
EVAN PRICE, NICOLE EARLY AND AUBREE GINN.
ANSWER: 15 GAMES WOULD BE PLAYED
QUESTION: SIX TEAMS ARE GOING TO PLAY IN A TOURNAMENT. EACH TEAM WILL PLAY EVERY OTHER TEAM
ONCE. HOW MANY GAMES WILL BE PLAYED IN ALL?
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