Thursday, October 16, 2008

October's Brain Teaser

Building Blocks
Question

Blocks

Color..................... Number of Blocks in Bag

Bag of Red Blocks ......407

Bag of Blue Blocks ......143

Bag of Green Blocks ....306

Bag of Yellow Blocks ....212

Ariel and Ling built a giant structure with plastic blocks.
They used 2 bags of the color with the most blocks in a bag.
They used 4 bags of the color with the fewest blocks in a bag.
They used 3 more bags of yellow blocks than bags of red blocks.
They used 3 bags of the remaining color.

How many blocks did they use in all?