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What is your favorite holiday?
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| 5/12/2008 | | Question | You are baking a cake and only have two measuring cups. One measures 1 cup and the other measures 3 cups. If you need 5 cups of flour, how could you use your cups to get exactly 5 cups? BONUS: How could you use both cups to find exactly 2 cups of sugar? | | Answer | For 5 cups of flour:
Use 3 cup once with 1 cup twice (3 +1 + 1) OR
Use 1 cup five times (1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1) OR
Use 3 cup twice then take 1 cup out (3 + 3 – 1)
For 2 cups of sugar, measure 3 cups of sugar then take out 1 cup (3- 1)
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| 5/5/2008 | | Question | Solve the following matproblem: 2 + 5 + 15 + 9 - 4 + 3 + 8-12 + 26 | | Answer | 52 | |
| 4/28/2008 | | Question | It is between 8:00 and 9:00 and the minute hand is covering the hour hand. What time is it? | | Answer | About 8:43 (give or take a minute, depending on your clock) | |
| 4/21/2008 | | Question | : Four bags of candy are placed in front of you. In all, there are 100 pieces of candy. There are 22 in the first bag and 18 in the second. The third bag has twice as many as the fourth bag. How many pieces of candy are in the third and fourth bags? | | Answer | The third bag has 40 and the fourth bag has 20. | |
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