Can You Solve These Modern Math Problems?

    The answers are hiding all around us.

    1. John has 17 apples. He gives Mary nine apples. How many apples does John have now?

    Answer:

    2. A train leaves California at 3 p.m. traveling east at 70 mph.

    Another train leaves New York City at the same time traveling 80 mph.

    At what time will the two trains cross paths?

    Answer:

    3. Mallory has 10 nickels and three pennies. What is the total value of the coins?

    4. A farmer has to get a fox, a chicken, and a sack of corn across a river.

    The farmer has a boat, but it can only carry him and one other thing.

    He can’t leave the fox alone with the chicken. He can’t leave the chicken alone with the corn.

    How does the farmer do it?

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