Stewartsville+honors+math+class+challenge+problems

(All of these problems were created by groups of honor students)


 * Sally has a lemonade stand. She makes $45.78 per week. Sally runs her stand for 2 and 3/4 months. Each month has exactly 4 weeks. Then she gives 25% of her profits to her parents. How much money does Salley get to keep? How much money did her parents get?


 * Can you guess the number? The number is odd, prime, less than 30, more than 12, a factor of 85, not divisible by 18. It is not 13


 * Bella likes Edward 92.83%. She likes Jacob 7.27% less than Edward. Who does Bella like more


 * Cole was hungry so he made some pie. The recipe calls for 15,287 1/3 pounds of cherries, 2,887,888 pounds of dough and 5 2/3 pounds of berries. Cole made 7 of these pies. How much of each ingredient did he use? Then for Thanksgiving, he makes half of the pie. How much of each ingredient does he need for that pie? Round to the nearest 100th


 * In one week 6 girls consumed 549 cookies. Every 15th cookie equals 1 pound of weight gained. How many pounds did all of the girls gain from eating all the cookies? Calli and Kayla ate 3/4 of the cookies how much did they both gain?