[Question]Isabella earns $5 an hour babysitting. She babysits 5 hours every day, 6 afternoons a week. After babysitting for 7 weeks, how much money will Isabella have earned?
[Answer]She earns 5 * 5 = $25 in a day. In a week she earns 25 * 6 = $150. In 7 weeks, she earns 150 * 7 = $1050. The answer is 1050.
Q: The kids in Ms. Swanson's class have an average of 5 zits each. The kids in Mr. Jones' class have an average of six zits each. If there are 25 kids in Ms. Swanson's class and 32 in Mr. Jones' class, how many more zits are there in Mr. Jones' class than in Ms. Swanson's?
A: First find the total number of zits in Mr. Jones' class: 6 zits / kid * 32 kids = 192 zits. Then find the total number of zits in Ms. Swanson's class: 5 zits / kid * 25 kids = 125 zits. Then subtract the number of zits in Ms. Swanson's class from the number in Mr. Jones' class to find the difference: 192 zits - 125 zits = 67 zits. The answer is 67.
Question: Carrie works for $8 an hour and 35 hours a week at her job. It’s been a month since she started working there. She has saved up all of her money because she wants to buy a bike for $400. How much money will she have left over after she buys her bike?
Answer: It will be easy to solve the problem by first calculating how much money she makes in a week at her job by multiplying her hourly rate by the number of hours she works in a week: $8 * 35 = $280 in a week. The weekly earnings need to be multiplied by the number of weeks in a month to get how much she made in a month: $280 * 4 = $1120. The bike’s cost must be subtracted from her earnings made in a month to get how much money is left over after purchasing the bike: $1120 - $400 = $720 is left over after purchasing her bike. The answer is 720.
[Question]Grace is looking to plant some lettuce in her raised bed garden. Her raised bed is comprised of 2 large beds on top with 2 medium beds on the bottom. The top bed can hold 4 rows of lettuce with 25 seeds being sown per row. The medium bed can house 3 rows with 20 seeds being sown per row. How many seeds can Grace plant in all four beds of her raised bed garden?
[Answer]A large bed can hold 4 rows with 25 seeds per row, 4 * 25 = 100 seeds per large bed. 100 seeds per large bed and there are 2 beds, 100 * 2 = 200 seeds needed in total for both large beds. A medium bed can hold 3 rows with 20 seeds sown per row, 3 * 20 = 60 seeds per medium bed. 60 seeds per medium bed and there are 2 medium beds, 60 * 2 = 120 seeds needed in total for both medium beds. 200 seeds needed for the large beds combined with 120 seeds needed for the medium beds comes to 200 + 120 = 320 seeds needed to plant all four beds of the raised garden bed. The answer is 320.
Q: Randy walks his dog twice a day. After each walk, he wipes his dog's paws off with a baby wipe. The baby wipes come 120 wipes per pack. How many packs will he need to make sure he has enough wipes for 360 days?
A: He uses 2 wipes a day and the pack of baby wipes come 120 wipes per pack so they will last 120 / 2 = 60 days. He needs enough to last for 360 days and 1 pack will last 60 days so he needs 360 / 60 = 6 packs. The answer is 6.
Question: Cynthia wants floor-to-ceiling curtains made with an additional 5" of material so it will pool at the bottom. If her room is 8 feet tall, how long will the curtains need to be?
Answer:
There are 12 inches in 1 foot and her room height is 8 feet so that's 12 * 8 = 96 inches tall. She wants an additional 5 inches of material added so the 96 inch long curtains will pool so she needs 5 + 96 = 101 inch long curtains. The answer is 101.