Doing the Dishes

If there are 5 plates, 6 cups, 4 knives, and 3 spoons in the sink, what is the probability that the next item picked to be washed will be a cup?

Should We Risk it?

It's been four days since our dinner party, and our leftovers are still in the fridge. We can't decide if it would be a good idea to eat them, or if they've gone bad. We looked online and found that 8 people found chicken parmesan to be spoiled after four days, and 5 people found it to be just fine. Based on these results, what is the probability that our food is spoiled? 

Space... So... Small!

Our refrigerator is so full! We have hardly any room for more food, so we need to figure out the best way to store our leftovers. We have 9 oz. of leftovers altogether, and we have 0.5 oz, 2 oz. and 5 oz. Tupperware bins. What is the most efficient way for us to store our leftovers?

To Keep, or Not to Keep? That is the Question!

After our dinner party, we realized we have some food leftover. We only want to keep the food if there is enough to make another meal out of it. First we decided to measure each type of food using a balance scale, and then we recorded our data on a chart. After looking at our results and comparing it to the amount we need, we decide whether or not we keep the food or feed it to our dog Fluffy.

• We have: 5 oz of chicken, 2 oz. of ziti pasta, and 4 oz. of green beans.
  
• We need: 3 oz of chicken, 4 oz of pasta, and 4 oz of green beans

What do we keep?

Dare to be Different

Most people divide their brownies into squares, but we changed our minds about that because we like to be different. If we need 24 brownies and we currently have a 9 x 13 inch rectangle, how can we divide our brownies into triangles? Trapezoids? Rhombuses?

Brainy Brownies

We need 24 brownies for our dinner party and for snacks during the week, and we can't decide how to cut up the brownies. How many even rows and how many columns can we divide our brownies into? Is there more than one way to do it?

Time After Time

The cliché dinner party disaster is overcooked food because someone left it in the over for too long. We want to avoid this disaster, so we need to practice our time telling skills:

• If we put the brownies in the oven at 2:15 and they take 30 minutes to bake, when should we take them out of the oven?

• Our chicken recipe says to leave it in the oven for 40 minutes. If we put the chicken in at 5:50, what time should we take it out?