Winter Weather Wonders
A snowstorm drops 3 inches of snow per hour for 4 hours. How much snow falls in total?
12 inches.
You buy 4 holiday candles for $8 each. How much do you spend in total?
$32
Renting ice skates costs $5 per hour. How much does it cost to skate for 3 hours?
$15
A family drives 100 miles to visit relatives. If they drive 50 miles per hour, how long does the trip take?
2 hours
A sweater costs $30, but you have a coupon for $5 off. How much does the sweater cost?
$25
A lake freezes at a rate of 2 inches per day when the temperature is below 20°F. If the lake freezes for 7 days straight, how thick is the ice?
14 inches.
You have $200 to spend on gifts. You buy 3 items for $45 each. How much money do you have left?
$65
A group of 5 friends each makes 3 snowmen. How many snowmen do they make in total?
15 snowmen
A plane travels 500 miles in 2 hours. What is its speed in miles per hour?
250 miles per hour
A heater uses 2 kilowatts of energy per hour. How much energy does it use in 8 hours?
16 kilowatts
If the temperature is 30°F and decreases by 4°F each hour, how cold will it be after 5 hours?
10°F.
A store offers 25% off a $60 jacket. What is the sale price?
$45
A family builds a 6-foot-tall snowman that uses 3 large snowballs, each weighing 50 pounds. How much does the snowman weigh?
150 pounds
A train ticket costs $25 per person. How much does it cost for 6 people to travel together?
$150
A house uses 15 gallons of heating oil per day in winter. How much is used in 1 full week?
105 gallons
A town uses 150 pounds of salt per mile of road during a snowstorm. If the town has 120 miles of roads, how much salt is needed?
18,000 pounds.
A toy originally costs $50 but is marked down by 15%. How much is the discount?
$7.50
A sledding hill is 240 feet long. If you sled down the hill at a speed of 12 feet per second, how long does it take to reach the bottom?
20 seconds
A car averages 20 miles per gallon of gas. How many gallons are needed to drive 240 miles?
12 gallons
A family spends $100 on electricity to heat their home in December. If electricity costs $0.10 per kilowatt-hour, how many kilowatt-hours do they use?
1,000 kilowatt-hours
The heaviest snowfall recorded in Florida was 4 inches in the panhandle in 1954. If 1 inch of snow weighs 10 pounds per square foot, how much did 4 inches weigh across a 1,000-square-foot area?
40,000 pounds
Americans spend over $1 trillion on holiday shopping annually. If every person in the U.S. (about 330 million people) contributed equally, how much would each person spend?
About $3,030 per person
In the winter of 2018-2019, the U.S. saw an estimated 2.5 billion dollars in damages due to snow and ice storms. If 60% of that cost was related to damage to infrastructure, how much was spent on infrastructure damage?
$1.5 billion
During the busiest travel week of the year, over 115 million Americans travel. If each traveler averages a round-trip distance of 200 miles, how many total miles are traveled?
23 billion miles
The average American household uses about 400 kWh per month for heating during the winter. If the cost per kWh is $0.13, how much does the average household spend on heating each winter month?
$52