Monday, January 24, 2011

math and mentoring

I mentor a young lad at West Ave. Elementary. Last week, during our hour together, he had to solve a math problem. I found it pretty tough too. For your edification, I provide the problem. Let me know if you solve it, there are only 5 correct answers.

You have a 1 bag of 45 m&m's. You use this bag to bake 12 cookies. Each cookie has at least 3 m&m's and no more than 5 m&m's. Determine the m&m distribution for the dozen cookies.

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