Miles was peeling potatoes for the big Thanksgiving dinner. He can peel 2 every minute. After he had

1
Miles was peeling potatoes for the big
Thanksgiving dinner. He can peel 2 every minute.
After he had worked for 25 minutes, his wife,
Prudence, realized that he would never finish all
the potatoes in time for dinner, so she decided
to help him. She is faster than Miles and can
peel 3 potatoes every minute. They finished in
time for dinner, and the two of them peeled
exactly 400 potatoes. How much time did each
person spend peeling potatoes?
2
The kitchen staff was arranging baskets of fruit
on the tables. Four baskets contained a total of
84 delicious, juicy Florida oranges. The fifth
basket contained 4 fewer oranges than the mean of
the five baskets. How many oranges were in the
fifth basket?
3
A recipe for cooking a turkey states to allow 20
minutes for each pound of turkey and to add 5
minutes per pound if the turkey is stuffed. Our
turkey weighs 16 pounds and will be stuffed. To
have dinner at two oclock in the afternoon, what
time does the turkey need to go in the oven?
Allow ½ hour for cooling and carving.
4
Make the word that is worth the most using this
code. H A P P Y T H A N K S G I V I N G! H
12 T 9 G 13 A 8 H I 10 P
11 A V 14 P N 7 I Y 6 K 15
N S 5 G