Well, it's been two weeks and we've yet to have a correct answer to the third Math Problem of the Week. I do want to congratulate Ms. Graham on solving the initial Math Problem of the week. Her perseverance and out of the box thinking allowed her to solve the puzzle. Not sure if she has shared the secret yet to that first problem, so I'm not going to spill the beans here.
As for the responses we've received for the $10 000 question...they are all great responses, as I can tell by the answers that were submitted that you have done some work trying to solve it. Many of you are close.
****THIS JUST IN...as I was typing this, Cloe in Mrs. General's room walked in to see me with the CORRECT ANSWER!!! WAY TO GO, Cloe! She is the first one to solve the problem, and she has been working hard at it. There's still a few more hours for people to get their answers in, then I will update the blog to announce the winner.
Back to the incorrect responses...we had $123.45 (close, but too low), another two answers of $555.55555 (you can round that number to two decimal points, girls, since we are talking about money amounts!), $370, 370 (much too high for the first guy to have, that's more than $10 000!!) and two more responses of $1 111 with a remainder of 1 (that's an excellent response, but that pesky remainder doesn't happen in the correct answer---try again! That answer works if there were only three people in the family.)
****Inspired by Cloe's discovery, we have another puzzle solver. Chris in 7-3 has finally cracked the problem. He needed to work out a few key errors in his solution process but he eventually got it. Perseverance works!
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