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?

5 comments:

Constantine's kid said...

the answer is 1068

Constantine's kid said...

Hi I am Nishanth the answer for october problem is 1069

Constantine's kid said...

hi,my name is ethan. 2,610 is my anser. 407x2=814 143x4=572 814+572=1,386 306x4=1,224 1,386+1,224=2,610

Constantine's kid said...

hi,my name is Kaitlyn and my anser is 4,272.I aded 407+143=550 and 306+212=518 and 518+550=1,068x4=4,272

Constantine's kid said...

hi, my name is ethan and my answer is 3,364. 407+407=814 4x143=572 572+814=1,386 5x212=1,060 3x306=918 1,386+1,060=2,446+918=3,364and that,s my answer