Problems of the Week - August 30 to September 5

Rewards for Problems of the week:

5 stars for the correct answer at your level; 10 stars for the next level; 20 stars for 2+ levels up.

Lower Elementary: 

Question: Alice has 2 brothers. Each of her brothers has 3 sisters. How many children are in Alice’s family?

Upper Elementary: 

Question: Stuart is building a garden wall out of cube shaped bricks that are each half a foot wide. The wall needs to be exactly 12 feet wide. If Stuart uses 96 bricks, how tall will the wall be?

Middle School: 

Question: Use the Math Dictionary to solve this problem: Polly has a bucket of paint that is ¾ full. She uses 4 pints of it to paint a bookshelf and has a quart left. How many ounces of paint can the bucket hold?

Algebra and Up: 

Question: The sum of three consecutive even numbers is 114. What is the smallest of the numbers?

Challenge problem to take home. 5 stars for the correct answer. 

The yellow angle is 25º. What is the blue angle?