Biking Bonanza

Bicycle Gear

Helmet $50
Biking gloves $20
Front lights $25
Rear saddlebag $30

Sale price on items listed above
20% off original price of items that cost $30 or more
10% off original price of items that cost $29 or less


Amber, Ike, and Tiffany shopped for bicycle accessories at a store's annual sale.

Amber spent $0.50 less on her one item than Ike spent on his two items combined.
For her two purchases, Tiffany got $3.50 back from $50.00.
One of Tiffany's and Ike's purchases was the same item.

What did each person buy? How much did each person spend?

October 15th



Building Bouquets

Mrs. Warren owns and operates an independent flower shop. To help sell more flowers (and cut down on waste), she offers a daily special of bouquets or corsages created from "leftovers" from larger orders.

With today's batch of leftovers, Mrs. Warren decides to try 4 flowers in each bouquet, but she has three extra flowers left. To make pricing easier, she wants the specials to be the same size, so she tries making the bouquets with 7 flowers each... but then there are two flowers left. If she makes bundles of 8 flowers, she has three flowers left.

1. What is the smallest possible number of flowers that Mrs. Warren has to work with?
2. With the number of flowers determined above, how many bouquets or corsages and of what size can Mrs. Warren make?

Extra: Do you think that Mrs. Warren would ever have enough leftovers that it wouldn't matter if she chose to make bouquets of 7, 8, or 9 flowers? (Don't forget - Mrs. Warren doesn't want to waste a single flower.)

Oct 8th

Each flight of stairs in Ms Bohm’s apartment building has the same
number of stairs and each flight of stairs connects one floor to the
next.


Ms Bohm walks up 65 stairs to get from the Ground floor to her
apartment.


To get from the Ground floor to the top floor she must
walk up 104 stairs.


If the lowest floor of the building is called the Ground floor and the floor above it is called the second floor (or
floor 2), what is the number assigned to the floor where Ms Bohm lives?


The correct solution is 6 floors.  For many of you I believe that you used the correct thinking but forgot that the ground floor was technically Floor 1 so you ended up one floor short calling it the fifth floor.

Missing the floor:
ground floor
floor 1
floor 2 
floor 3
floor 4
floor 5  - a total of 6 floors

Correct floor palcement: as stated in the problem
Floor 1 ground floor
Floor 2
Floor 3
Floor 4 
Floor 5
Floor 6 - 6 floors and Ms. Bohm's apartment