Merry Christmas Math Problems



Each Problem is worth 2 points, you may complete up to ten questions.

Merry Christmas Math Problems

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|If candy canes cost .89 a dozen, how much would it cost to buy candy canes for a school with 400 students? |

|Macy's has hired 400 store Santas. If each Santa sees 125 children a day for 30 days, how many children are seen by Macy's Santas?|

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|One group of carolers goes to every 6th house in a neighborhood, another goes to every 8th house. At which house will they first |

|meet? |

|Mr. Green is putting lights around 8 windows; each window is 3 and 1/2 feet wide and 5 feet long. How many feet of lights does he |

|need? |

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|10 elves each made 10 xylophones. Each xylophone had 10 keys. They did this for 10 days. How many keys were made by elves? Show in|

|exponential form and solve. |

|Each batch of 48 cookies that Amy makes takes 20 minutes in the oven. If the oven is on for 3 hours and 55 minutes (15 minutes for|

|preheating), how many cookies did Amy make? |

|Beth is making gingerbread men. She uses 2 raisins for eyes and 3 raisins for buttons for each gingerbread man. She buys 4 boxes |

|of raisins, each with 120 raisins in it. How many dozens of gingerbread men can she make? |

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|Brian wants a 7 and 1/2 foot Christmas tree. Which of these trees is a better buy? Explain. |

|A.) All trees $42 |

|B.) $6 a foot |

|C.) First 4 feet $22; each additional foot $6 |

|K-Mart is open Monday through Saturday from 8:00 AM to midnight and Sunday from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM. How many hours is it open in |

|one week? |

|Each large roll of ribbon has 20 yards. Each package takes 3 feet of ribbon. How many packages can be wrapped? |

1.When the Christmas cake was about to be served,

you were told you could have 0.6, 60%, 3/5, 6%.

Which 3 will give you the same size portion?

2. 4/7 of the Christmas cake was eaten on Christmas

day. The next day your dad ate 1/2 of what was

left. You get to finish the cake, how much is left?

3. The Christmas Tree store has a parking lot that will

hold 1000 vehicles. 2/5 of the parking spaces are

for cars. When you went to buy your tree, there

were 200 cars and some trucks in the parking lot.

The parking lot was 3/4 full. How many trucks were

in it?

4. Justin is making snowballs to build a fort on the

Christmas holiday. Justin can build 15 snowballs in

an hour but 2 snowballs melt every 15 minutes.

How long will it take him to build 210 snowballs?

5. The recipe for mint chocolate ice cream requires 2

1/4 cups of creams for 5 people. You need ice

cream for 8 people. How much cream will you

need?

Happy Holidays

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|If you buy every item in the song, The Twelve Days of Christmas, how many items will you buy? |

|What is the ratio (fraction) of birds to the total number of items? |

|Santa and Mrs. Claus want to take 4 of the elves to see THE NUTCRACKER. How much will it cost if adult tickets are $34.95 and elf |

|tickets (child) are $24.95? |

|Santa needed to draw a map of one of the areas he had to go to deliver gifts. Follow these directions and draw the map for him. |

|Use your dictionary to look up words you don't know. |

|Ice Boulevard is parallel to Reindeer Road and Holly Highway. |

|Snowflake Street is diagonal to all 3 and deadends at Holly Highway. |

|Present Pike is perpendicular to Holly, Reindeer, and Ice. |

|Mistletoe Mall is bordered by Reindeer Road, Present Pike and Ice Boulevard. |

|DRAW THE MAP AND LABEL EVERYTHING. Use the back of your paper. |

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|Mrs. Claus wants to have a nice meal ready when Santa comes home. She wants to make waffles and she knows that she will have to |

|double the recipe since he will be so hungry. Show how much of each ingredient she will need. |

|3/4 stick of butter (melted) __________________________________ |

|1 1/4 cup of flour _________________________________________ |

|1/4 cup sugar ___________________________________________ |

|1/2 tbsp. baking powder ____________________________________ |

|1/8 tsp. salt ________________________________________ |

|7/8 cup milk _______________________________________ |

|1 tsp. vanilla _______________________________________ |

|1 egg _____________________________________________ |

|Mrs. Claus needs to feed the reindeer. She buys 2 pounds of food per day per reindeer. How much food does she need for December? |

|For the whole year? |

|She wants to put lights all around her windows. She has 15 windows all of the same size. Each one is 3 feet long by 2 feet wide. |

|How many strands will she buy if each strand covers 10 feet? How much will she pay if each strand costs $6.99? Don't forget that |

|there is tax of 7%. |

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