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Yard Sale |
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Saturday was a big day for yard sales – the weather was gorgeous and people from all around town had yard sale signs out before their homes. Many were tempted to stop and many items found new homes that day. Five people in particular were very pleased with their purchases as each got a piece of furniture in good shape and at a very good price... |
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The Bagel Stop |
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The local bagel shop is a busy place first thing in the morning as
people get their coffee and bagels on the way to work. For these five
regular customers, the bagel shop stop is a routine part of every
morning. Each gets a medium coffee and a bagel to go. While they do
occasionally change the flavors or toppings of the coffee or bagel,
today each ordered their favorite combination... |
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Grocery Shopping |
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Even though she forgot her shopping list, Harriet spent the morning
grocery shopping for her family. Being the forgetful sort, forgetting
her list was not that unusual, just a bit inconvenient. Although she
didn't usually have too much trouble with the grocery shopping because
her four kids accompanied her and were used to reminding her when she
forgot something... |
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Monday Night Homework |
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Monday night, Billy's homework included assignments in five major
subjects. He spent all evening before bedtime working on papers,
problems, and labs. He did succeed in finishing all his assignments
before crawling into bed and was pleased to find out that he did
reasonably well in all of them too... |
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Tea-Fest |
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Tonight the teashop in town, Bags with Riches, is having a tea-fest.
Along with tasty snacks and pastries, they’ll have a number of
different teas available for customers to try, free of charge.
Determine the full name of each person working at the teashop, the
favorite flavored tea of each worker, and the snack each worker made
for the event. |
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Bowling Tournament |
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Last weekend was the men’s annual bowling tournament, an event of
competition and fun for the local townspeople. This year, excitement
ran high as five contestants bowled neck and neck for the
championship. Each time a bowler won a game, he scored two points and
the bowler with the highest number of points at the end of the
tournament won... |
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Scrabble Tournament |
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Last weekend was the national Scrabble tournament, held in New York
City. Four finalists played three games against each other to
determine the national Scrabble champion of the year. The finalists
had been playing Scrabble for years and competition was fierce... |
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TV Night |
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Five friends were chatting one night and discovered that each of them
has a favorite TV show that airs one night during the week. By
coincidence, each of them loves a different show; each of which airs
on a different night and channel. Determine the full name of each
friend, the genre their favorite show is in, the night each show airs,
and the channel the show airs on... |
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Circus! Circus! |
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The circus is in town! Four families got tickets for a day of fun
under the big top. Each family brought a different number of children
and each family had a different favorite act of the day. Determine the
full name of each couple, how many children each had, and what each
family's favorite act was. |
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Alpine Mountain Skiing |
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Five couples visited the Alpine Mountain resort on Saturday for a day
of downhill skiing. The weather was perfect, clear and crisp, and the
couples had a wonderful time. Each couple skied down one slope they
were familiar with and down one new slope. The slopes all varied in
difficulty level... |
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Feeding Schedule +
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Four residents of Park Street all left for vacation on Sunday evening. Each family left behind a pet, whom one of the local teenagers had agreed to take care of for them. Kristin, the local teenager, made a schedule of stops for each day to cover the five different pets she needed to take care of that week... |
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Singles Dance Night +
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The local Singles Club had a special Dance Night event last Friday evening. Each person was matched at random with a different dance partner every hour and every hour the style of ballroom dancing changed. By midnight, the event was deemed a total success and each person had danced with five different people. As it happens, five of those random couples actually planned a second date with each other during the following week... |
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Last Updated: May 29, 2008 |
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