Puzzling Problems http://puzzlingprimaryproblems.edublogs.org PUZZLE , PONDER, POST!!! Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:56:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Healthy Dinners http://puzzlingprimaryproblems.edublogs.org/2007/11/14/healthy-dinners/ http://puzzlingprimaryproblems.edublogs.org/2007/11/14/healthy-dinners/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:56:56 +0000 mshearman http://puzzlingprimaryproblems.edublogs.org/2007/11/14/healthy-dinners/ Healthy Dinners

Ted likes to eat healthful meals. He always eats one of his favorite vegetables: broccoli, string beans, or a mix of peas and carrots. He always has either rice or mashed potatoes. And he always has either chicken, beef, or lamb.

How many possible combinations of his favorite vegetables, starches, and meats are there?

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The City Zoo has a special exhibit on spiders and snakes. A visitor decided to count all the legs and all the heads of the many strange animals on exhibit. She found that there were 24 heads and 64 legs. She noticed that all the spiders have 8 legs each, the snakes have no legs, and, of course, snakes and spiders all have one head each.

How many spiders and how many snakes are there in the exhibit?

]]> http://puzzlingprimaryproblems.edublogs.org/2007/11/14/heads-and-legs/feed/ 0 Make A Trade http://puzzlingprimaryproblems.edublogs.org/2007/08/02/make-a-trade/ http://puzzlingprimaryproblems.edublogs.org/2007/08/02/make-a-trade/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:03:34 +0000 mshearman http://puzzlingprimaryproblems.edublogs.org/2007/08/02/make-a-trade/ At a party, each of 8 friends was given a game card. To play the game, each person had to walk around and trade a card with every other person at the party.

How many trades took place in all?

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How many of them are bicycles and how many are tricycles?

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