December 14th: a Christmas Maths Problem

Your Better Tuition Advent challenge today is a fun maths puzzle.

Welcome to Day Fourteen of Better Tuition’s 2013 Winter Advent Activity Calendar.  Today we have a Christmas maths problem for you.

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Advent Calendar - day 14 - Better Tuition

Beth is making gingerbread men for Christmas. She uses 2 raisins for eyes and 3 raisins for buttons for each gingerbread man. She buys 4 boxes of raisins, each with 120 raisins in it. How many dozens of gingerbread men can she make?  The solution can be found at the bottom of this post.

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Answer:

8

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