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| #1 Charles collected 43 sweets on Halloween night. He gave 15 of them to his father. He gave his mother ten less sweets than he gave his father. Then Charles ate four of the sweets. Question: How many sweets did he have left? #2 How many ghosts are in the haunted house? Clues: There are more ghosts than the number of days in October. There are less than the product of 7 and 5. The answer is an odd number. #3 A dozen pumpkins in each row, Seven rows, and not one more. Altogether we should know The pumpkins total more than four! #4 Pelvis Costello the skeleton went out to frighten the kids on Halloween night. He fell down, and you guessed it, he suffered some broken bones. The doctor said it would take seven weeks for him to heal. Question: In what month would he be healed? #5 How far can a bat travel in nine hours, if it is flying at nineteen miles per hour? #6 Which is the greater number of pumpkins? a. seven porches with eight pumpkins each b. eight porches with seven pumpkins each c. fifty-eight porches with one pumpkin each d. one porch with five dozen pumpkins #7 Michel bought six jumbo bags of sweets to give out at Halloween. Each bag had 32 individual sweets. On Halloween, 18 children came to Michel's house and Michel gave them each 3 sweets. Question: How many sweets does Michel have left after Halloween? #8 How many ghosts are behind the haunted gate? Hints: Fourteen times the sum of five and two and eight Now divide that number by two dozen divided by eight. You will now know the number of ghosts behind the gate. #9 In a secret laboratory, a Professor unwrapped the bandages of a mummy. For two hours he unwrapped the white cloth. When he finished, four million, nine hundred thousand cm of bandages lay at his feet. Question: How many metres of bandage had been wrapped around the mummy? #10 Which statement is incorrect? a. Take 8 witches’ brooms that are each 5 feet long and lay them end to end, they’ll be 40 feet long altogether. b. One fourth of a pumpkin pie is 25%. c. One skeleton times one skeleton equals two skeletons. d. Fifteen monsters minus fifteen monsters equals zero monsters. #11 A Halloween costume that normally sells for $20 is on sale for 20% off. After the deduction is taken, a sales tax must be added (at 17.5%). Question: What is the total cost to buy the costume? #12 The area of a large, rectangular-shaped pumpkin plantation is 15.17km2. The length of the plantation is 4.1km kilometres. Question: How many kilometres is the width of the plantation? #13 There are a total of 20 ghosts, witches, and scarecrows at the haunted house. The number of witches is four less than the number of ghosts. The number of scarecrows is two less than the number of witches. Question: How many witches and ghosts are at the haunted house? #14 Burnell ate one-third of a pumpkin pie. Ellery ate one-sixth of the pie. Question: How much pie is left? #15 I bought 26 masks for a Halloween party. Some were vampire masks (they cost $3.99 each) and some were witch masks (cheaper ones- only $2.75). In total I spent $91.34. Question: How many vampire masks did I buy? #16 Delphine's farm picked a total of 310 pumpkins. Delphine separated the pumpkins into small and large. She sold the small pumpkins for $3 each and the large ones for $9 each. She sold all of the pumpkins for total sales of $1,950. Question: How many small and large pumpkins did Delphine originally pick? |