Pete’s Last Day at the Story Problem Factory Before Vacation

There’s a farmer who has 6 cows, 4 brown and 2 white.  While he’s working in the fields he finds a scrap of paper on the ground.  It has something written on it that says, “What is 6 X 4?”

A tugboat driver is making an equilateral triangle using ropes attached to another boat.  His wife calls in the middle of it because she wants to ask him what’s 100 – 79.

Jim’s mother had a horrible brain injury.  Pretty much everything is fine, but she isn’t good with numbers.  So she asks Jim a lot of math problem.  Like What is 2 + 11?

Jennie starts a lawnmowing business.  She needs about 1 gallon of gas to mow three yards.  If Jennie has to mow seventeen yards tomorrow, is there any chance of her having any kind of a childhood, or is she pretty much locked into crap work at this point?