St. Patrick's Day Word Problems
13. For St. Patrick's Day, Mrs. G's sixth grade class was given a choice of four different drinks. One-quarter of the class chose the green milkshakes, one-third of the class chose the green ginger ale, one-eighth of the class chose the green milk and one-sixth of the class chose the green juice. How many students did not have a drink?
14. The St. Patrick's Day jelly beans came in six colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.
Lochlan's package contained twice as many orange jelly beans as red. There were three more yellow jelly beans than green ones and five more purple than blue. There was one more green jelly bean than red and exactly the same number of green and blue. If there were 89 jelly beans in the package, how many of each color was there?
15. Ronan's art class was making a lot of shamrock cut-outs to decorate the halls of the school. Each shamrock required a square piece of green Bristol board. How many pieces of Bristol board would be required? If the students threw out the Bristol board that wasn't used for shamrocks, what percent of the Bristol board was wasted?
16. Lara the Leprechaun was very good at cartwheels and somersaults. Every cartwheel she did covered a distance equal to twice her arm's length from shoulder to wrist times 3.14. Her somersaults covered a distance of 3.14 times the distance from her chin to her knees (which was 15cm. If her arm length was 19 cm, approximately how far would she get in 25 somersaults and 25 cartwheels?
17. Larry the Leprechaun discovered that one of his nine coins was fake and the only way to tell was that the fake coin weighed slightly less than the real coins. Using his balance, he quickly discovered the fake coin after only two measurements. How did he do it? How many measurements would it take to discover one fake coin among 80 coins?