A BRUSH WITH DANGER
Sometimes you look at your everyday life and decide you need a change – a big change. And one way to get that is to repaint your bedroom. Lots of colors, lots of eye-hurting patterns – something that will make a statement.
If you could repaint your room, and could go as crazy as you wanted, what colors would you use?
Of course, the fancier you get, the more carefully you have to plan.
If you could repaint your room, and could go as crazy as you wanted, what colors would you use?
Of course, the fancier you get, the more carefully you have to plan.
Questions
Wee ones (counting on fingers): If you repaint your room like a jungle, and you need 4 litres of Banana Yellow and 4 litres of Coconut Green, how many litres of paint do you need?
Little kids: You’ve decided to paint giant lollies all over the walls. If a litre of paint is enough for 7 lollies, how many candies can you paint with 3 litres? Bonus: Of those lollies, if you paint 6 bright red and for the rest you paint equal numbers of yellow, orange and green, how many orange lollies do you paint?
Big kids: In the middle of the night you secretly paint your room with glow-in-the-dark stripes – which is good, because you can see what you’re doing. If you need 2 litres of neon green, 3 times as much silver as green, and 4 times as much ultraviolet as silver to fill the walls, how many total litres of paint do you need? Bonus: You suddenly realize you accidentally painted over all the windows. If you had skipped the windows, and they make up 1/8 of the wall space, how many total litres would you have really needed?
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Little kids: You’ve decided to paint giant lollies all over the walls. If a litre of paint is enough for 7 lollies, how many candies can you paint with 3 litres? Bonus: Of those lollies, if you paint 6 bright red and for the rest you paint equal numbers of yellow, orange and green, how many orange lollies do you paint?
Big kids: In the middle of the night you secretly paint your room with glow-in-the-dark stripes – which is good, because you can see what you’re doing. If you need 2 litres of neon green, 3 times as much silver as green, and 4 times as much ultraviolet as silver to fill the walls, how many total litres of paint do you need? Bonus: You suddenly realize you accidentally painted over all the windows. If you had skipped the windows, and they make up 1/8 of the wall space, how many total litres would you have really needed?
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Answers:
Wee ones: 8
Little kids: 21. Bonus: 5 for each
Big kids: 2 + 6 + 24 = 32. Bonus: finding one eighth can be done by halving 3 times. 32 - 16/8/4, so 1/8 is 4. 32 - 4 = 28.
Little kids: 21. Bonus: 5 for each
Big kids: 2 + 6 + 24 = 32. Bonus: finding one eighth can be done by halving 3 times. 32 - 16/8/4, so 1/8 is 4. 32 - 4 = 28.