Question: Rosie pays for a $.44 piece of candy with a $1 bill. If the cashier gives her the smallest number of coins possible as change, how many coins will Rosie get as change?
Answer: Rosie will get $1 - $.44 = $.56 in change. She will get 2 quarters to account for $.50 of the change. She will also get 1 nickel to account for $.05 of the change. Then, she will get 1 penny, to account for the last $.01 of the change. She will get 2 + 1 + 1 = 4 coins total. The answer is 4.
[Question]Rikki is writing and selling poetry. He sells his poems for $.01 a word. He can write 25 words of poetry in 5 minutes. If he has 2 hours to write poetry, how much can he expect to earn?
[Answer]He will write for 120 hours because 2 x 60 = 120. He will write for 24 units of five minutes each because 120 / 5 = 24. He can write 600 words because 24 x 25 = 600. He can earn $6 because 600 x .01 = 6. The answer is 6.
Q: Los Angeles has 6 million people living in it. If half the population is women and 1/3 of the women work in retail, how many women work in retail in Los Angeles?
A: There are 3 million women in Los Angeles because 6,000,000 / 2 = 3,000,000. 1,000,000 women work in retail because 3,000,000 x (1 / 3) = 1,000,000. The answer is 1000000.
Question: Jasmine swims 12 laps every afternoon, Monday through Friday. How many laps does she swim in five weeks?
Answer: Jasmine swims 5 days a week. The number of laps per week is 12 laps / day * 5 days / week = 60 laps / week. In five weeks, she swims 5 weeks * 60 laps / week = 300 laps. The answer is 300.
[Question]The balance of Pam's bank account tripled during the year. At the end of the year, Pam withdrew $250. If her current balance is $950, how much did she have in the bank account at the beginning of the year?
[Answer]First, we have to come up with the balance before her withdrawal. $950 (current) + $250 (withdraw) = $1200. Now since we know that is triple, we divide by 3. $1200 / 3 = $400. The answer is 400.
[Question]Ginger owns a flower shop, where she sells roses, lilacs, and gardenias. On Tuesday, she sold three times more roses than lilacs, and half as many gardenias as lilacs. If she sold 10 lilacs, what is the total number of flowers sold on Tuesday?
[Answer]
With 10 lilacs sold, three times more roses than lilacs is 3 * 10 = 30 roses. Half as many gardenias as lilacs is 10 / 2 = 5 gardenias. In total, there were 10 + 30 + 5 = 45 flowers sold on Tuesday. The answer is 45.