First Name: __________________ Last Name: ____________________
Grade: _______ Teacher: ________________ Parent’s email: ___________________________________
YUMMY PIES
In this math challenge, you will solve math problems involving yummy pies.
Turn your answers in by Thursday February 18th at 3:00 pm.
Kinder & First Grade: Solve at least 3 problems.
Second & Third Grade: Solve at least 7 problems.
Fourth & Fifth Grade: Solve at least 11 problems.
1.
2.
Jessica made a banana cream pie. She cut it into eight slices. She ate a slice and her
brother ate 2 slices. How many slices are left?
Answer:
Mom bought an apple pie and a pecan pie. Each is cut into 6 slices. After we ate
dessert, there were 2 slices of apple pie left and 1 slice of pecan pie left. How many
slices were eaten?
Answer:
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Use the following information to answer problems 3 to 10.
Mrs. Sharma made four different pies for Rockwell's town fair. Each pie was the same size.
At the fair, she cut the blueberry pie into 6 equal slices, the apple pie into 5 equal slices, the
peach pie into 3 equal slices, and the chocolate pie into 4 equal slices.
3.
How many total slices of pies are there?
Answer:
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4.
How many more blueberry pie slices are there than peach pie slices?
Answer:
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5.
6.
If Mrs. Sharma sells her pies at $2 per slice, how much money will she receive if she
sells all her pies?
Answer: $
Zeke and Sayan, each bought a slice of each pie at $2 per slice. How much did they
spend altogether?
Answer: $
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7.
It costs Mrs. Sharma $1.50 to make the crust of each pie and $2.00 for the filling on
Answer: $
each pie. Her pies are very popular and usually sell out. How much profit will she make _____________________
if she sells every pie for $2.00 per slice? (Hint: ask an adult or older sibling what a
profit is).
8.
If she increases the price by 25¢ per slice, how much more profit she will earn?
Answer: $
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9.
Annika, Dalton, Ria, and Sarah each bought one slice of pie but ate only a portion of
that slice. Each chose a different kind of pie.
 Annika bought the largest slice available and ate ¼ of it.
 Dalton bought the smallest slice available and ate ¾ of it.
 The slice Ria bought was bigger than the slice Sarah bought. Ria ate ½ of her
slice.
 Sarah ate ⅔ of her slice.
What kind of pie did each person choose?
10. What fraction of the total pie did each person eat? Simplify the fractions in the
answer.
Answer:
Annika:
Dalton:
Ria:
Sarah:
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Answer:
Annika:
Dalton:
Ria:
Sarah:
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11.
The pies were arranged in a “pyramid shape” so that 9 pies
were lined up in a row and 8 pies were stacked on top, then 7,
then 6, then so on until there is only 1 pie stacked on the very
top. How many pies were used to form this arrangement?
Answer:
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------------------and so on --------------------
12. Two booths at the school fair are selling 90 pies altogether. Half of the pies in booth A
is equal to one-third of the pies in booth B. How many pies are in each booth?
Answer:
Booth A:
Booth B:
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13. Tanya’s basketball coach bought pizza dinner and 4 pies to celebrate the end of the
season. She spent a total of $68.95. If the pizza dinner cost $50.20 more than each
pie, what was the cost of the pizza dinner?
Answer: $
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Math Challenge 10 will be available online February 26, 2016 at www.mathinaction.org