Math Riddles and Equations

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Mathematics
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Professional Development
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Hard
+8
Standards-aligned
Brendan Heng
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22 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
You walk into a candy store and you want candy and tried to purchase candy but candies at the lowest price cost $2.50 but you see a gumball machine and you have $1.25 and each person can put 5 coins in the gumball machine per day and per person and you have a 20% chance to get candies and candies will be listed below: Green Candy 70% chance, Blue Candy 25%, Red Candy, 30%, Kiwi Strawberry 55%, Golden Candy 5%, Ultra Deluxe V.I.P Premium Grand Quality Chocolate by world famous dessert artists 0.01% and nothing 75%. What are the chances/odds that you recieve 5 candies?
50%
100%
25%
75%
55%
Answer explanation
The average percentage is calculated by 5 x 20% / 2
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 8 pts
There are 1000 Buffalos and you are the 500th Buffalo and 1/2 of Buffalos ran away and 1/4 of them are male and 3/4 of them are female and 1/7 of them meet the expectation of being able to be tamed and can be used as cattle and 1/5 of them are calfs and 1/2.5 of the calf are boys and the other 1/2.5 of the calfs are girls and some Buffalo tend to live up to a certain age of about 59 and older ones tend to live up to 69 years old in the wild but in captivity they tend to live a shorter life span due to uncooperative environment or ecosystem and 200 Buffalos tend to die during the night when wolfs and bears tend to attack them unalarmed. How many Buffalos were there?
500
690
750
657
1000
Tags
CCSS.7.EE.B.3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 7 pts
There are 1000 Buffalos and you are the 500th Buffalo and 1/2 of Buffalos ran away and 1/4 of them are male and 3/4 of them are female and 1/7 of them meet the expectation of being able to be tamed and can be used as cattle and 1/5 of them are calfs and 1/2.5 of the calf are boys and the other 1/2.5 of the calfs are girls and some Buffalo live up to a certain age of about 59 and older ones tend to live up to 69 years old in the wild but in captivity they tend to live a shorter life span due to uncooperative environment or ecosystem. What gender are you if you are the 500th Buffalo?
Male
Your gender right now.
Not enough information to decide and we need more data and more variables to the problem to find the leading factor in some information to get an estiment.
Female
The opposite gender of you right now.
4.
FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION
5 mins • 10 pts
You walk into a restaurant. In the room, there are 10 People, Who are 21 years old, 3 people who are 26 years old, 7 People who are 29 years old. 17 are men and 13 are women and you are 21 years old. How many people are in the restaurant?
Tags
CCSS.3.OA.D.8
5.
FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION
1 min • 5 pts
How months have 28 days?
6.
FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION
1 min • 5 pts
What can be described as nothing but can be something?
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 10 pts
You have 5, I have 5, Your mother has 4, Your father has 4, Your friends have 3, I have 3, Your teacher has 2, I have 2, I have 1, you have none. What am I?
Life-Span
Ephemeral
Deciding Factors
Sides
Sephanefurine
Tags
CCSS.L.1.5A
CCSS.L.1.5B
CCSS.L.K.5A
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