September+Challenges

September 26th Stringing Beads You've gone to the bead store with $3.00 that you've saved. You want to make a necklace for your mother using three types of beads: You want to use all your money, with none left over. You want your necklace to have a repeating pattern, beginning and ending with a pink bead and you want mostly purple beads - your mother's favorite color. You also want to use some of all three kinds of beads in your necklace.
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Is it possible for you to do this? Can you design a necklace following all these rules?

Adapted from "  [|Aunty Math"]  problems, copyright 2006, Angela G. Andrews   September 19th Guess My Number I'm a four-digit palindrome (that means I'm the same backwards and forwards, like 101 or 1221). All my digits are even. Two, three, four, six and eight are all factors of me (which means you can count by 2, 3, 4, 6 AND 8 and STILL land on me. You can use a calculator to check). The sum of my digits is more than 10 but less than 20. What number am I?

September 12th Piles of Clothes It's your week to fold laundry. In the huge pile, there are twice as many T-shirts as towels, 3 times as many socks as T-shirts, and the same number of pairs of jeans as towels. If there are 10 T-shirts in the pile, how many pairs of jeans, towels and socks are there?

September 6th <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;">What's My Number? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">I'm more than 500 but less than 1,000. All my digits are odd. The sum of my digits is 11. The digit in the tens place is more than the digit in the ones place. (HINT: a "sum" is the answer to an addition problem)

September 1st <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;">Field Trip! <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Twenty-two students from Mrs. Hughey's fourth grade class are going to the Franklin Park zoo to study animals of the Arctic (no, not really!). Six adult chaperones will join the class. The cost for each student is $5, and for adults admission is $7. What is the total cost for everyone attending the zoo with Mrs. Hughey's class? (don't forget about Mrs. Hughey!)

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