3-19 Problem Solving!

Bill works at the post office.  Today his job is to stamp the sides of the packages that are not touching the floor and not touching another package.   There are 25 packages on the floor in stacks of 5 each.  The sides of the packages touch.  How many sides of packages must Bill stamp?

sides of packages

Two bears were born this month at the zoo.  Skippy is 27 days old and Sam is 3 days old.  Soon Skippy will be four times as old as Sam.  How old will Skippy be then?

Fill in the table to help find the answer.

Skippy will be days old when he is four times older than Sam.

Pam has 49 copper and silver coins.  She has 13 fewer copper coins than silver coins in her collection.  How many coins does she have of each kind?

copper coins

silver coins

Maddy got on the bus and dropped her coins into the money meter.  Her bus fare was 15 cents.  How many different groups of coins could Maddy have used to pay for her bus fare?

different groups of coins

A farmer was weighing the vegetables that he grew in his garden.  He weighed a tomato, an ear of corn, a turnip, and a carrot.  The carrot was 8 pounds less than the turnip and the turnip was 3 pounds more than the ear of corn.  The ear of corn weighed half as much as the tomato.  The farmer rolled the tomato onto the scale.  It was 18 pounds!

How much did the carrot weigh?

pounds