Each sentence below is missing two words. Each of these words is made up of the same letters, and one of those words is a math word.
Can you fill in the blanks?
Hint: The number of letters in each word is given in parentheses.
1. The little ___ laughed with glee as she watched her ___ fly in the windy sky. (4 letters)
2. After taking out a ___ of credit, I now have a ___ on my car. (4 letters)
3. Geodesic is one ___ used to construct a ___ . (4 letters)
4. I felt too guilty to end my prayer with ___ because I called the church secretary a ___ name.
(4 letters)
5. When mom and ___ asked me what we were doing in algebra, I answered that we were learning
to ___ and subtract polynomials. (3 letters)
6. While surfing the ____ , he found ____ math websites that looked really interesting. (3 letters)
7. I'm ____ sure if a full grown pig weighs one ____ . (3 letters)
8. A cute ___ flew at an obtuse ___ towards Earth. (5 letters)
9. You should never go to a shooting ____ if you are feeling ____. (5 letters)
10. While skiing down the ____ , he dropped his ____. (5 letters)
11. A commercial jet ___ has a very complex control ___ . (5 letters)
12. We heated the ___ beans to the boiling ___ . (5 letters)
13. The spy plane could not file a flight plan because its ___ was ___ . (6 letters)
14. The ___ had the congregation join hands to form a prayer ___. (6 letters)
15. Sir Lancelot rescued the ___ from the ___ of the road. (6 letters)
16. The ___ news story was at the ___ of discussion. (6 letters)
17. In the microscope the ___ had a ___ shape. (8 letters)
18. Knowing how to form a ___ is ___ in forming a pyramid. (8 letters)
19. Spendthrifts are the ___ of misers, who ___ . (8 letters)
20. Computer programmers no longer use slide rules, but they may still use a ___
when creating an ___. (9 letters)
Solution to the Problem:
1. TIKE and KITE2. LINE and LIEN
3. MODE and DOME
4. AMEN and MEAN
5. DAD and ADD
6. NET and TEN
7. NOT and TON
8. ANGEL and ANGLE
9. RANGE and ANGER
10. Slope and POLES
11. PLANE and PANEL
12. PINTO and POINT
13. VECTOR and COVERT
14. CLERIC and CIRCLE
15. MAIDEN and MEDIAN
16. RECENT and CENTER
17. PATHOGEN and HEPTAGON
18. TRIANGLE and INTEGRAL
19. CONVERSE and CONSERVE
20. LOGARITHM and ALGORITHM
Congratulations to Halley Bindl who solved 19 out of the 20 sentences!
Correctly solved by:
| 1. SreeRoopa Sankararaman | Singapore, Singapore |
| 2. Ivy Joseph | Pune, Maharashtra, India |
| 3. Michael Stoll |
Mountain View High School, Mountain View, Wyoming |
| 4. Kimberly Howe | Vienna, Virginia |
| 5. Britney Larsen |
Mountain View High School, Mountain View, Wyoming |
| 6. Pascalina Earley |
Delta High School, Delta, Colorado |
| 7. Mikaela Williams |
Mountain View High School, Mountain View, Wyoming |
| 8. Kindee Carter |
Mountain View High School, Mountain View, Wyoming |
| 9. Nicolle Leonrad |
Mountain View High School, Mountain View, Wyoming |
| 10. James Ritter |
Mountain View High School, Mountain View, Wyoming |
| 11. Michael Newton |
Mountain View High School, Mountain View, Wyoming |
| 12. Gauge Lockhart |
Delta High School, Delta, Colorado |
| 13. Tyler Petersen |
Mountain View High School, Mountain View, Wyoming |
| 14. Halley Bindl |
Mountain View High School, Mountain View, Wyoming |
| 15. Macy Rinker |
Mountain View High School, Mountain View, Wyoming |
| 16. Chaynee Martin |
Mountain View High School, Mountain View, Wyoming |
| 17. Caden Elardi |
Mountain View High School, Mountain View, Wyoming |