Spooky Math Problems

With Halloween coming right around the corner, here are some spooky word problems to get you ready for the season.

1. Andy has a number of friends who like dressing as zombies for Halloween. Two years ago, four of his friends dressed as zombies. Last year, that number increased by fifty percent. This year, the number increased by one third over last year. How many of Andy’s friends are dressing as zombies this year?

2. Three witches were making a brew and needed to triple their recipe. The original recipe called for 1 1/3 cups of bug splatter, 2 1/4 cups of sardines, 3/4 of a cup of dirty dish water and 2/3 of a cup of moldy asparagus. What quantities should they use for a triple batch?

3. Celina’s family grows pumpkins and sells them every day in October. Last October they sold eighty percent of their pumpkins at three dollars a piece and made an average of about two hundred seventy-one dollars per day. How many pumpkins did they grow?

4. What percentage of the letters is the letter g in, “Four ghastly ghouls googled googols wearing green goggles?” What percentage is the letter o?

5. According to Universe Today, it takes twenty-nine days, twelve hours, forty-four minutes and three seconds to get from one full moon to the next. A werewolf was concerned that this might get in the way of his human birthday party on the eighth of June. As you know, werewolves change into their wolf form during full moons. If the last full moon was on the fourteenth of November at 20:30:15, will there be a full moon on the eighth of June?

6. Vlad (the vampire) wanted to line the inside of his cof􀏐in bed with purple cloth. He measured the inside height, length and width to be twenty-three inches, eighty-four inches and twenty-eight inches. He also noted that it was a rectangular prism. The purple cloth is sold by the foot in sixty inch wide pieces. How many feet of cloth does he need to buy?

And if you managed to solve all of these problems you'll be all set to go trick or treating!

Happy Halloween!