Humpty Dumpty
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Explain, and show your work.
1) Humpty Dumpty falls 8 feet every time he falls. How many feet will he fall altogether if he falls 9 times?
2) Humpty Dumpty loses 2% of his weight every time he falls. If he falls 9 times and weighs 105 lbs. , how much weight will he lose? Round to the nearest tenth.
3) Humpty Dumpty calls his uncle Joe every time he falls. If he is charged 14 cents every time, how much will it cost? (He falls 9 times)
4) Humpty Dumpty is trying to rebuild the wall he fell off of. He is trying to measure how much cement he will need. If there are 56 bricks and he has to use 1 gallon of cement for 7 bricks, how many gallons of cement will he need for the wall?
5) The King has 160 men in his army. If the king ordered one fifth of his men to help Humpty Dumpty, how many will not help him?
6) Humpty Dumpty weighs 105 lbs. He goes on a diet and losses one seventh of how much he weighs. How many pounds will he weigh after the diet?
7) Humpty Dumpty likes to eat a lot before he sits on the wall. He eats 1 orange for every kiwi and eats 4 kiwis for every apple he eats. If he has eaten 45 fruit how many of each fruit did he have?
8) It takes the King's horses 15 minutes to get to Humpty Dumpty. If they have to travel 4 miles, how fast are they going?
9) Humpty wants to tell his friends to come and help him up but his cell phone had a code of three numbers. The numbers went from 0-9. Humpty forgot the code. How many combinations could he have using the numbers 0-9 and only using 3 numbers? Same number can be used more than once.
10) A doctor said that out of the 390 bones, he broke one tenth of them. How many did bones he break? Put the answer in a fraction, decimal, percent, and a whole number.
Answers
1) 72 feet
2) 18.9 pounds
3) $1.26
4) 8 gallons
5) 128 men
6) 90 pounds
7) 20 kiwi 20 oranges 5 apples
1 orange = 1 Kiwi
4 Kiwis = 1 Apple
Number of Kiwis + Number of Apples + Number of Apples = 45
8) 16 mph.
9) 1000 choices
10 x 10 x 10
You have 10 ten choices for the 1st digit because you ten digits 0 through 9.
You have 10 ten choices for the 2nd digit.
You have 10 ten choices for the 3rd digit.
You just multiply 10 x 10 x 10 = 1000 choices
10) 39 over 100 .39 10% 39