Q: Sandra has a box of apples that weighs 120 pounds. She's going to use half the weight in apples to make applesauce. The rest will be used to make apple pies. She needs 4 pounds of apples per pie. How many pies will she be able to make?
A: The box weighs 120 pounds and she's going to use half of it to make applesauce so she'll use 120 / 2 = 60 pounds for applesauce. The box weighs 120 pounds and she'll use 60 pounds for applesauce so that leaves 120 - 60 = 60 pounds of apples. She has 60 pounds of apples and she needs 4 pounds to make a pie so she can make 60 / 4 = 15 pies. The answer is 15.
Question: Lilia has 15 peaches. She sold 10 peaches to her friends for $2 each, while 4 other peaches were sold to her relatives for $1.25 each, and she left the other one for herself. How much did she earn after selling 14 peaches?
Answer: Lilia earned 10 x $2 = $20 for selling the peaches to her friends. She also earned 4 x $1.25 = $5 for selling the peaches to her relatives. Therefore, Lilia earned $20 + $5 = $25 for selling 14 peaches. The answer is 25.
[Question]Madison takes her dog to the dog park. Counting Madison's dog, half the dogs have spots and 1/5 have pointy ears. If 15 dogs have spots, how many have pointy ears?
[Answer]First double the number of dogs with spots to find the total number of dogs: 15 dogs * 2 = 30 dogs. Then multiply that number by 1 / 5 to find the number that have pointy ears: 30 dogs * 1 / 5 = 6 dogs. The answer is 6.
Q: Among the career home run leaders for MLB, Hank Aaron has 175 fewer than twice the number that Dave Winfield has. Hank Aaron hit 755 home runs. How many home runs did Dave Winfield hit in his career?
A: Let x be the number of home runs Dave Winfield hit. 755 = 2x - 175. 930 = 2x. x = 465 home runs. The answer is 465.
Question: Jeremy listened to five fewer songs yesterday than today. Yesterday, he listened to nine songs. How many songs did Jeremy listen to in two days?
Answer: Jeremy listened to 9 + 5 = 14 songs today. Thus, he listened to 9 + 14 = 23 songs in two days. The answer is 23.
Q: Peter needs to buy birdseed to last a week. He knows that each parakeet eats 2 grams a day. His parrots eat 14 grams a day. His finches eat half of what a parakeet eats. If he has 3 parakeets, 2 parrots and 4 finches, how many grams of birdseed does he need to buy?
A:
His parakeets eat 6 grams a day, because three parakeets times two grams each equals 6 grams. His parrots will eat 28 grams a day because two parrots times 14 grams equals 28 grams. Each finch will eat 1 gram a day, because they eat half of what a parakeet does and 1 / 2 of 2 equals one. His finches will eat 4 grams a day because four finches times 1 gram equals 4 grams. His birds eat 38 grams a day because 6 plus 28 plus 4 equals 38. Each week has 7 days. Therefore, in a week he will need 266 grams because 7 times 38 equals 266. The answer is 266.