Here's a fiendishly fun math puzzle just in time for Halloween. First, take a trip through our spooky graveyard and read the inscriptions on the six headstones.
Then, use your math skills to answer the five questions at the bottom of the page. It's a creepy job, but someBODY's gotta do it!
Subtract each person's year of birth from his or her year of death to determine the person's age. Use that information to answer the following questions:
1. Who was the youngest? Who was the oldest?
2. Which two ages could you subtract to get the number 31 (the date in October on which Halloween falls)?
3. Which two ages combined are still lower than Hattie Fall's age?
4. Which two people's ages could you combine to equal a third person's age?
5. Which three ages add up to 100?