Blog - K8

Introduction On a road trip, the Madison family sees that they have 56 miles more to go to get to their destination. Since their 4-year old and 3-year old are screaming and crying in the car, the parents decide they will sing songs to try to calm them down. They have decided that they will […]

Introduction A standard NBA season schedules 82 games for each season and each team. You purchased season tickets for one at the beginning of the season for your favorite NBA team. However, your family wants you to divide the tickets among them. There are 7 members, including yourself, in your family. Use the factors of […]

Introduction It is the Class of 1984’s High School Reunion. Soon, they will be celebrating together all of the high school graduates and even the alumni from previous years. A booklet is created for each high school reunion showing all of the people who passed away from all of the previous years from that high […]

Introduction There is a place in New Zealand that has the longest name for a place in the world. It is called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu. This place has 85 letters in the name if you counted all of the letters. If you wanted to memorize this place’s name so that you could spell it easily, how would […]

Introduction My sister has a closet full of clothes. As a matter of fact, she has 58 different dresses. In this closet of mainly dresses, the dresses fall into being one of 29 different colors. Using this information, see if you can figure out how many dresses of each color my sister has in her […]

Introduction In a 55-gallon drum, it needs to be filled with different kinds of rocks in order to create a heavy weight to keep doors open and tarps down on the ground from blowing away. Since the gallon-drum owner is frugal, he goes straight to the clearance aisle of the rock store. Since it is […]

Introduction With 54 independent countries in Africa, a social studies teacher provides her students with the map of those countries. She tells her students that they must color the map using different colors and then they will need to memorize these countries for a test. She recommends color-coordinating the countries by placing them into groups […]

Introduction Fifty-one employees are working at a candle-making factory. There are three departments in the company. These departments are the melting, finished product, and office departments. So, the company wants to divide the employees into those departments as evenly as possible. Use the factors of 51. Is that a possibility for the employees to be […]

Introduction A potential job candidate is creating his resume. He is actually going to lie on his resume. Even though he has never worked a job, he wants to show that he has worked some jobs. So, he makes some up. He decides that he should have been working for the past 34 months since […]

Introduction In the United States, there are 50 states. An organization is grouping the states into equally-sized groups. Then each group would contain the same number of states in them. The worker in the organization hasn’t quite figured out how he wants to do this. See if you can help him. Think of the number […]