Word Problem Wednesday – Farmer Fred

This month’s Word Problem Wednesday problem comes from Math in Focus Grade 3.

Farmer Fred makes 4 quarts of orange juice on Monday. He makes 2 quarts more orange juice on Tuesday than on Monday. He makes 2 more quarts on Wednesday than on Tuesday. He carries on making 2 more quarts of orange juice every day than the day before. In how many days will he make a total of 80 pints of orange juice?

Submit your solutions by the end of the month!


Last month’s problem was from Primary Mathematics Challenging Word Problems 3:

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  1. Iryna V. Boehland says

    19 days

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