Thursday, June 25, 2009

Competition Entry - Scraplift


3 comments:

Leslie said...

A round wheel with a radius of 37 cm rolls at a constant speed of 3 revolutions per second. How far does the axle of the wheel move in 8 seconds?

Leslie said...

The agricultural school garden is rectangular in shape and measures 20' x 45'. The students plant beans in 2/3 of the garden. One half of that contains lima beans. How many square feet of the garden are planted in lima beans?

Leslie said...

Three friends, returning from a movie on Friday the 13th, stopped to eat at a restaurant. After dinner, they paid their bill and noticed a bowl of mints at the front counter. Sean took 1/3 of the mints, but returned four because he had a momentary pang of guilt. Faizah then took 1/4 of what was left but returned three for similar reasons. Eugene then took half of the remainder but threw two that looked like they had been slobbered on back into the bowl. (He felt no pangs of guilt - he just didn't want slobbered-on mints.) The bowl had only 17 mints left when the raid was over. How many mints were originally in the bowl?