Richard went apple picking at a pick-your-own orchard. One of the growers gave him a basket, and in talking with her, he learned:

• a full basket of apples weighs about 20 pounds
• ten pounds of apples or less costs $0.99 a pound
• more than ten pounds of apples costs $0.85 a pound
• 80 average-sized apples weigh about 40 pounds

At Richard’s local market, apples cost $0.39 each.

Boxes of Cereal

Lily and her little brother Mikey eat different kinds of cereal, but their cereals come in the same size box. Every morning at breakfast, Lily eats four times as much cereal as Mikey does.

One Monday, Lily started with a new full box, while Mikey still had half a box to finish.

Harry put his 4′ long broom in a 36″ long box.

That’s Interesting

One year, on December 31, Curtis, who doesn’t trust banks, put $1000 in a can and buried it in his back yard. He plans to continue adding $1000 to the can on the last day of each year until he’s ready to retire.

On the same day, Bill invested $1000 in a bank account that will pay 10% interest annually on the last day of the year. Unlike Curtis, he does not plan to continue investing more money each year.

 

Berries!

I have a blueberry bush with 9 blueberries and a raspberry bush with 7 raspberries. I ate some blueberries and some raspberries. Now there are 4 blueberries and 4 raspberries on my bushes.

Wheels R Us

One fourth of the vehicles at Danielle’s Cycle Shop are tricycles. The rest are bicycles. Danielle counted a total of 45 wheels in her shop.

 

Lee’s Lawn Chair

Specialist Lee Alejandre, who is 6 feet tall, had leave time from the Army, some of which he spent basking in the sun at Swarthmore College in a couple of different chairs:

dimension	larger chair	smaller chair
width of seat	57 3/4″	21″
length of arm	80″	29 1/2″
front leg	26 1/8″	9 1/2″

Voulez Vous des Voussoirs?

A voussoir is a trapezoidal piece of stone often used to build arches.