We love looking at all the funny costumes people come up with. But some of the best costumes are worn by dogs. Each year Americans spend $350 million dressing up pets – compared to $950 million they spend on costumes for kids. And the funny part is, some of those kids dressed up as dogs! When you do the math, either way it adds up to a lot of fuzz and fur.
Wee ones: How many dogs do you see in the picture?
Little kids: If you have 5 dogs dressed up as dinosaurs, how many more dinosaur costumes would you need to have 8 in total? Bonus: If you had 2 dogs posing as dinosaurs and 2 real dinosaurs, how many legs would they have altogether? (Count only the real legs, not the costume ones.)
Big kids: If a dog costume contest has 275 dogs and 10 times as many people watching, how many people came to watch the pups? Bonus: If there are 68 million dogs in the U.S., does the $350 million spent on their costumes make an average of more than $10 per dog?
Answers:
Wee ones: 2 dogs.
Little kids: 3 more dogs. Bonus: 16 legs, since you’d have 4 4-legged animals.
Big kids: 2,750. Bonus: No, because 68 million multiplied by 10 would make 680 million – the average is closer to $5 per dog.