The Bah Humbug Holiday Math Quiz

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The Bah HumbugHoliday Math Quiz
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• There are approximately 378 million Christian
  Children in the world. At an average rate of 3.5
  children per household, how many houses will
  Santa visit this Christmas?
• Santa has 31 hours to do his work (due to
  different time zones and the rotation of the
  earth). How much time does Santa have for each
  visit?
• Santa has an average of about 0.78 miles between
  houses. How many miles long is his trip?
• How fast is Santa moving, in miles per hour?
• If each child gets a toy that weighs, on average,
  2 pounds, how many tons of toys will Santa have
  to load on the sleigh? (one ton 2,000 pounds)
• A normal reindeer can pull about 300 pounds.
  Assuming that each of Santas flying reindeer can
  pull ten times that much, how many reindeer will
  it take to pull the sleigh?

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• There are approximately 378 million Christian
  Children in the world. At an average rate of 3.5
  children per household, how many houses will
  Santa visit this Christmas?
• Santa has 31 hours to do his work (due to
  different time zones and the rotation of the
  earth). How much time does Santa have for each
  visit?
• Santa has an average of about 0.78 miles between
  houses. How many miles long is his trip?
• How fast is Santa moving, in miles per hour?
• If each child gets a toy that weighs, on average,
  2 pounds, how many tons of toys will Santa have
  to load on the sleigh? (one ton 2,000 pounds)
• A normal reindeer can pull about 300 pounds.
  Assuming that each of Santas flying reindeer can
  pull ten times that much, how many reindeer will
  it take to pull the sleigh?

378 million/ 3.5 108 million households
(31 hrs/108 million houses)(60 minutes/1 hr)(60
secs/1min) 0.001 secs
(0.78)108 million 84.2 million miles
84.2 million miles/ 31 hours 2,717,419 mph
378 million (2 lbs/toy)/ 2,000 lbs/ton 378,000
tons
378,000 tons/ 1.5 tons/reindeer 252,000
reindeer
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Santas System of Equations

• 7. In Santas system of equations below, what
  does Santa equal?

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Santas System of Equations

• 7. In Santas system of equations below, what
  does Santa equal?

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Santas System of Equations

• 7. In Santas system of equations below, what
  does Santa equal?

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BONUS

• How many total gifts were given over the twelve
  days of Christmas?
• How many would be given over the 365 Days of
  Christmas?
• (assume only 12 gifts on the 12th day, 5 gifts on
  the 5th day, etc.)

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BONUS

• How many total gifts were given over the twelve
  days of Christmas?
• How many would be given over the 365 Days of
  Christmas?
• (assume only 12 gifts on the 12th day, 5 gifts on
  the 5th day, etc.)

12(13)/2 78 gifts
365(366)/2 66,795 gifts