Sheet # 3/Mother's Day
Name: _____________________ Date_____________
Explain and Show Your Work.
1) The 27 students in Mrs. Klinger's Fourth Grade made Mother's Day gift boxes. They made 27 boxes. They planned to put 2 Hershey's kisses and 2 Hershey's hugs candies in each box. How many candies did they need?
2) Mrs. Klinger's husband went to the store to buy the candy. He bought one bag of kisses and one bag of hugs. Did they have enough candy? The Nutrition Information on the back of the bags read:
Serving size 9 pieces
Serving Per Container (bag) about 9
Do they have enough candy?
3) The students decided to count the candy. An exact count of the candies came out to be 1 Hershey's hug short of enough for each student to put 6 candies in their gift box. How much candy did they have? How many kisses? How many hugs?
4) The gifts are finished and ready to go home. The students decided to use as much of the candy as they could. How many candies did the put in each box? Will they have any left over? What can they do with the leftovers?
Answers for Sheet # 3
The class made 27 boxes....one per child.
1. 27 X 4 = 108 needed
54 kisses and 54 hugs
2. 9 x 9 = 81 candies per bag...according to the package info
81 x 2 = 162 total
Yes, we had enough candy.
3. 6 x 27 = 162
162 - 1 = 161 that we actually had
81 kisses and 80 hugs
4. We could put 5 candies in each box since we knew we had 161 to work with we
tried 5 x 27 = 135 to get a solution
161 - 135 = 26 pieces were left over
We decided to use the 26 piece that were left over for prizes or rewards, another