assignment 29

1.)  Using a tap or filled pool or a magical waterfall, a three gallon container and a five gallon container, can you measure exactly 4 gallons, you may empty the containers down the drain or on the ground or back into the pool?  Explain why or why not.  You can't guess or estimate.

 put the water from the five gallon container pour it into 3 gallon container then you have 2 gallons left in the 5 gallon container. 

Pour the 3 gallon out and pour the 2 gallons left in to the 3

fill up the 5 and pour 1 gallon into the 3 gallon container and like magic you have 4 gallons in the container

2.)  Jack has three daughters and each has one brother. How many children does Jack have?

4 children

3.)  Three teachers were discussing how long they had been teaching.
Adam and Betty had been teaching for a total of 36 years.
Charleen and Betty had been teaching for a total of 22 years.
Charleen and Adam had been teaching for a total of 28 years.

How long had each been teaching?

A=23
B=16
C=20

4.)  At dawn on Monday a small gecko fell into a bucket that was 12 inches deep.
During the day it climbed up 3 inches, however, during the night it fell back 2 inches.
On what day did the small gecko finally manage to climb out of the bucket?

next Thursday

5.)  Which is larger, the number of seconds in a week or the number of minutes in a year? By how much?

604800 seconds 525949 minutes

78851 

6.)  If you were to spell out the numbers in full starting with one, (One, Two, Three, etc), how far would you have to go until you found the letter ‘A’?

1000 

7.)  Last week I spent half of my money on a new jacket and then I spent half of that amount on some new trousers. I was left with $24.50. How much did I spend?

85.50

8.)  If I give you seven Fuji apples, you will then have five times as many as I would then have, however, if you give me seven Fuji apples, we will then both have the same number of Fuji apples. How many Fuji apples do I currently have?

About 2 fuji apples

9.)  An fire ant has six legs, a black spider has eight legs and a field mouse has four legs.  In my backyard zoo, I recently counted 612 legs which came from an equal number of each of these animals.

Can you identify how many animals there are in my zoo?

There are about 24 animals in your zoo

10.)  What would be the number you get if you divide 400 by 1/2 and add 7?

The total would be 207

11.)  Which number is larger, the number of seconds in a day or the number hours in 10 years? By how much?

there is 86,400 seconds in a day, and 87,658 hours in 10 years so the latter is slightly larger. the difference is 1258