Building Shelves 1

Directions: Using the digits 0 to 9 at most one time each, fill in the boxes to make the following problem true.

Ricky is building ? sets of shelves for the office. It takes him ? ? minutes to do each set of shelves. He’ll be done building the sets in ? hours.

Hint

Can you make the problem true using the digits 0 – 9 as many times as you would like?

Answer

Answers may vary. For example:

Ricky is building 8 sets of shelves for the office. It takes him 30 minutes to do each set of shelves. He’ll be done building the sets in 4 hours.

Source: Chase Orton

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6 comments

  1. Ricky is building 8 sets of shelves for his office. It takes him 30 minutes to do each shelf. He’ll be done in 4 hours

  2. Ricky is building 7 shelves for his office. It takes 30 mins to build each shelf so 30×7 =3 hours and 30 mins.

  3. I know this is a bit fast, but we make it up, don’t we?

    Ricky is building 3 shelves for the office. It takes 10 mins to build each shelf. He’ll be done building the sets in 2/4 hours.

    I used 2/4 because I already used the number 1.

  4. Ricky is building 4 shelves. each shelf takes 30 min. he will be done in 1 hr

  5. Ricky is building 2 sets of shelves for the office. It takes him 60 minutes to do each set of shelves. He’ll be done building the sets in 2 hours.

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