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Grades 2-3: A sheepdog has a litter of 7 puppies and 1 adopted piglet. Each puppy eats 2 cups of food per day. The piglet eats twice as much as a puppy. How many cups of food do the baby animals need each day in total?
Grades 4-6: One farmer sleeps through his alarm clock 3 times every 12 days. Another farmer has a duck that wakes him up 2 out of every 3 days by quacking. Which wakeup method is more effective, the alarm clock or the duck?
Grades 7-8: Esme makes a dollhouse that is a perfect miniature of her own farmhouse. The farmhouse is 11 metres wide. The dollhouse is 55 centimetres wide. What are the dimensions of a miniature refrigerator that goes inside the dollhouse if the real-life refrigerator in the farmhouse is 9 decimetres wide, 6 decimetres deep, and 15 decimetres tall?
Grades 9 and up: A pig and a border collie are competing in a sheep herding competition. When the pig approaches the sheep at a rate of 11 km/h, the sheep walk away at a rate of 3 km/h. When the border collie chases the sheep at a rate of 25 km/h, the sheep run away at a rate of 20 km/h. Which animal catches up to the sheep faster?
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