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Sandra’s Seashells
Sandra loves to collect seashells! In her current collection, she has three times as many white shells as she has brown shells. She has 14 more brown shells than pink shells. Her goal today is to find 3 more white shells! If she does find them, her collection will be up to 75 white shells.
How many pink shells are in Sandra’s current collection?
Geo Camp
All the cabins at Geo Camp are named after shapes. If campers pay close attention, they can identify a pattern in the order of the names! Continue the pattern to name the last two cabins.
Sphere
Triangle
Cube
Hexagon
Batter Up!
Every member of the Super Sluggers baseball team has a unique player number between 50 and 60. But whose number is whose? Use the clues to figure it out!
Jackson: 58
Aiden: "My number's second digit is 3 less than its first digit."
Stevie: My number is prime.
Isabella: 59
Lucas: 51
Camdyn: 54
Jayce: "My number is the midpoint between 50 and 60."
Leah: "My number's digits add up to 11."
Zoe: "My number divides evenly by 3."
Flaky Ferris Wheel
Finnegan painted the center of his Ferris wheel with the number 7 and numbered his Ferris wheel cars 1 through 6 so that each line of cars adds to the same total. But the paint on the cars lanbeled A, B, and C has flaked away! Help Finnegan replace the missing numbers.
ANSWERS: Sandra’s seashells: Sandra has 10 pink shells: 75 – 3 = 72 current white shells, 72 ÷ 3 = 24 brown shells, 24 – 14 = 10 pink shells; Batter up!: Aiden is 52, Stevie is 53, Jayce is 55, Leah is 56, Zoe is 57; Geo camp: The pattern is 3-dimensional shape, 2-dimensional shape. For Cabin 6, any name that is a 2-d shape is valid. For Cabin 7, any name that is a 3-D shape is valid; Flaky Ferris Wheel: The lines are 1-7-6, 2-7-5, and 3-7-4. All sum to 14.
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