Stumpers: Trick or Treat
Flex your math muscles with these fun brainteasers! Record your work and answers on our answer sheet.
COSTUME COMBINATIONS
At her store, Annabella rents out Halloween costumes. Her witch costume chest has 4 wands, 8 cloaks, and 5 witch hats. If each witch costume is made up of 1 wand, 1 cloak, and 1 hat, how many unique costumes can she make?
BONUS: Owen rents the brown wand, purple cloak, and hat with the big buckle. How many unique combinations of witch costumes can Annabella make now?
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CANDY CRAZE
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Jade has 3 chocolate ghosts, 9 pieces of candy corn, and 6 gummy spiders in her trick-or-treating pail. She randomly picks out one piece. What’s the probability that it’s a gummy spider? Write the probability as a fraction in simplest form.
