Our sense of smell is a big part of tasting food. If you pinch your nose and take a bite of apple and a bite of onion, the two foods will taste the same! But French fries smell so good that the Idaho Potato Commission has made a French-fry-scented perfume. Spritz a little on your wrist and you’ll smell like a French fry all day. The question is, do you want to?
Lace up: Look at the picture. Are the puffy French fry clouds equal sizes?
Jog: If you hand $2 to the cashier for the $1.89 French fry perfume, how much money do you get back?
Sprint: If you buy actual French fries and get back 13 cents in change, how many ways could the cashier give you back coins to make that amount?
Hurdle: If it takes 90 days to grow a potato, 1 day to cut that potato into fries, and 23 days to turn those fries into perfume, how long does it take all together?
High Jump: If you have a potato slicer that turns 1 potato into 16 fries, how many potatoes do you need to slice to make at least 130 fries?
Answers:
Lace up: No, they are each a different size!
Jog: $0.11.
Sprint: We count 4 possible combinations to make 13 cents: 13 pennies; 8 pennies + 1 nickel; 3 pennies + 2 nickels; 3 pennies + 1 dime.
Hurdle: 114 days.
High Jump: 9 potatoes, because 8 potatoes make only 128 fries.
