Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007

Cookies

Your comments showed some good thinking! There were eight peas in every pod, 10 pods in every pack, and 12 packs in every carton, which is 8 x 10 x 12 = 960 peas. One pack missing yields 8 x 10 x 11 = 880. The with one pod missing you subtract 1 pod (or 8 peas) from 880 which yields 880 - 8 = 872 total peas in the carton.

Tim ate 100 cookies in 5 days. Each day he ate 6 more than the day before. How many cookies did he eat on the first day?

6 Comments:

Robby5ma QRS said this on 4:28 PM 

He ate 8 on the first day.

Day 1 8
Day 2 14
Day 3 20
Day 4 26
Day 5 32

32+8= 40.
26+14=40
+ 20
100

surflow said this on 7:36 PM 

He ate 8 cookies in the 1st day.

Day1:8 cookies
Day2:14 cookies
Day3:20 cookies
Day4:26 cookies
Day5:32 cookies

(8+14)+(20+26)+32=100

100 cookies!!!

Anonymous said this on 7:44 PM 

He ate 8 cookies in the 1st day.

Day1:8cookies
Day2:14cookies
Day3:20cookies
Day4:26cookies
Day5:32cookies

(8+14)+(20+26)+32=100cookies

100cookies!!!

Anonymous said this on 8:14 PM 

8 cookies on the first day.

Jonathan 4H said this on 9:27 AM 

8 cookies

Anonymous said this on 4:10 PM 

8 chocochips