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Introduction My sister has a closet full of clothes. As a matter of fact, she has 58 different dresses. In this closet of mainly dresses, the dresses fall into being one of 29 different colors. Using this information, see if you can figure out how many dresses of each color my sister has in her […]

Introduction In a 55-gallon drum, it needs to be filled with different kinds of rocks in order to create a heavy weight to keep doors open and tarps down on the ground from blowing away. Since the gallon-drum owner is frugal, he goes straight to the clearance aisle of the rock store. Since it is […]

Introduction With 54 independent countries in Africa, a social studies teacher provides her students with the map of those countries. She tells her students that they must color the map using different colors and then they will need to memorize these countries for a test. She recommends color-coordinating the countries by placing them into groups […]

Introduction Fifty-one employees are working at a candle-making factory. There are three departments in the company. These departments are the melting, finished product, and office departments. So, the company wants to divide the employees into those departments as evenly as possible. Use the factors of 51. Is that a possibility for the employees to be […]

Introduction A potential job candidate is creating his resume. He is actually going to lie on his resume. Even though he has never worked a job, he wants to show that he has worked some jobs. So, he makes some up. He decides that he should have been working for the past 34 months since […]

Introduction In the United States, there are 50 states. An organization is grouping the states into equally-sized groups. Then each group would contain the same number of states in them. The worker in the organization hasn’t quite figured out how he wants to do this. See if you can help him. Think of the number […]

Introduction In a car, a car racer knows that with every rev of the engine, the odometer needle climbs steadily 7 times. If he revs it seven times without the odometer needle falling at all, if that is all possible, how many times will he rev his engine to reach 35 miles per hour? Consider […]

Introduction In a large zoom meeting, there are 49 students in it. With this large of a class, the teacher wants the students to answer questions, but not all at the same time. That would be too difficult to manage with all of those answers coming into the chat box. You decide to equally divide […]