[Question]A concert ticket costs $40. Mr. Benson bought 12 tickets and received a 5% discount for every ticket bought that exceeds 10. How much did Mr. Benson pay in all?
[Answer]Mr. Benson had a 5% discount for each of the 12 - 10 = 2 tickets. So, those two tickets had a $40 x 5 / 100 = $2 discount each. Hence, each ticket cost $40 - $2 = $38 each. Thus, two discounted tickets amount to $38 x 2 = $76. And the other ten tickets amount to $40 x 10 = $400. Hence, Mr. Benson paid a total of $400 + $76 = $476. The answer is 476.
Q: Martha needs 4 cups of berries and 2 cups of heavy cream to make 1 quart of ice cream. She wants to make 1 quart of strawberry ice cream and 1 quart of raspberry ice cream. At the farmers market, the 2 cup packages of strawberries are $3.00 each and the 2 cup package of raspberries are $5.00 each. The heavy cream is sold for $4.00 for a 4 cup container. How much will it cost her to make 1 quart of each ice cream?
A: She needs 4 cups of strawberries per quart of ice cream and the strawberries are sold in 2 cup packages. So 4 / 2 = 2 packages of strawberries. The strawberries cost $3.00 per package and she needs 2 so 3 * 2 = $6.00. She needs 4 cups of raspberries per quart of ice cream and the raspberries are sold in 2 cup packages. So 4 / 2 = 2 packages of raspberries. The raspberries cost $5.00 per package and she needs 2 so 5 * 2 = $10.00. Every quart needs 2 cups of heavy cream and she's making 2 quarts so 2 * 2 = 4 quarts. She will spend $6.00 on strawberries, $10.00 on raspberries and $4.00 on heavy cream bringing the total to 6 + 10 + 4 = $20.00. The answer is 20.
Question: Rob has some baseball cards, and a few are doubles. One third of Rob's cards are doubles, and Jess has 5 times as many doubles as Rob. If Jess has 40 doubles baseball cards, how many baseball cards does Rob have?
Answer: Rob has 40 / 5 = 8 doubles baseball cards. Rob has 8 * 3 = 24 baseball cards. The answer is 24.
[Question]There are 8 loads of laundry that need to be washed. Each load of laundry takes around 45 minutes to complete in the wash cycle and 1 hour in the dry cycle. How long, in hours, will it take to complete the entire set of laundry?
[Answer]Each load takes 60 + 45 = 105 minutes. There are 8 loads that take 8 * 105 = 840 minutes. It takes 840 / 60 = 14 hours. The answer is 14.
Q: Toby is counting goldfish in the local pond. He knows that only 25% of goldfish are at the surface and the rest are too deep below the surface to be able to see. If he counts 15 goldfish, how many are below the surface?
A: There are 60 goldfish because 15 / .25 = 60. 75% of the fish are below the surface because 100 - 25 = 75. There are 45 goldfish below the surface because 60 x .75 = 45. The answer is 45.
Question: Melanie does her weekly shopping at the farmer's market. She starts with an 8-ounce wheel of brie cheese. Next is a 1 pound loaf of bread. She grabs a pound of tomatoes and 2 pounds of zucchini. After that, she grabs 1 1/2 pounds of chicken breasts and treats herself to 8 ounces of fresh raspberries and 8 ounces of fresh blueberries. How many pounds of food does she buy?
Answer:
She bought 8ounces of cheese, 8 - ounce raspberries, 8 ounces of blueberries for a total of 8 * 3 = 24 ounces. 16 ounces are in 1 pound and she has 24 ounces of food so she has 24 / 16 = 1.5 pounds of food. Those items are 1.5 pounds and she bought 1 pound of bread, 1 pound of tomatoes, 2 pounds of zucchini and 1.5 pounds of chicken for a total of 1.5 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 1.5 = 7 pounds of food. The answer is 7.