[Question]Brenda raises mice, and her adult mice recently had three litters of 8 each. She gave a sixth of the baby mice to her friend Robbie to keep as pets. She sold three times the number of babies she gave Robbie to a pet store. Half of the remaining mice were sold to snake owners as feeder mice. How many baby mice did Brenda have left?
[Answer]Brenda’s mice had 3 * 8 = 24 baby mice. She gave Robbie 24 / 6 = 4 mice. Thus, she sold 3 * 4 = 12 mice to the pet store. She had 24 - 12 - 4 = 8 mice remaining. She sold 8 / 2 = 4 as feeder mice. Thus, Brenda had 8 - 4 = 4 mice left. The answer is 4.
Q: James gets bored with his game so decides to play a different one. That game promises 100 hours of gameplay but 80% of that is boring grinding. However, the expansion does add another 30 hours of enjoyable gameplay. How much enjoyable gameplay does James get?
A: The first game was 100 * .8 = 80 hours of grinding. So it was 100 - 80 = 20 hours of good gameplay. The expansion brought the time of good gameplay to 20 + 30 = 50 hours. The answer is 50.
Question: Gus eats 2 eggs-omelet for breakfast. He has an egg salad sandwich made with 3 eggs for lunch. He then has an egg drop soup made with 1 egg for dinner. How many eggs did Gus eat altogether?
Answer: Gus eats 2 + 3 = 5 eggs for breakfast and lunch. Including dinner, he eats a total of 5 + 1 = 6 eggs. The answer is 6.
[Question]An animal shelter recently took in twelve cats. The shelter already had half that number of cats. Two days later, three had been adopted. The next day, one of the cats had five kittens, and one person arrived to pick up one of the cats that was their missing pet. How many cats does the shelter have now?
[Answer]The shelter started with 12 / 2 = 6 cats. The cats they took in increased the number to 12 + 6 = 18 cats. Three cats were adopted, so they had 18 - 3 = 15 cats. One cat had 5 kittens, which increased the number of cats to 15 + 5 = 20 cats. The pet owner came to get his missing cat, so they now have 20 - 1 = 19 cats. The answer is 19.
Q: Annie does a survey of the sixth-grade classes to see who prefers pretzels to goldfish. In Miss Johnson's class, 1/6 of the students preferred goldfish. In Mr. Feldstein's class, 2/3rds of the students preferred goldfish. In Ms. Henderson's class, 1/5 of the students prefer goldfish. If each class has 30 students, how many people total prefer goldfish?
A: First find the number of students in Mr. Feldstein's class who prefer goldfish: 2 / 3 * 30 students = 20 students. Then find the number of students in Mr. Feldstein's class who prefer goldfish: 1 / 6 * 30 students = 5 students. Then find the number of students in Ms. Henderson's class who prefer goldfish: 1 / 5 * 30 students = 6 students. Then add the number of students from each class who prefer goldfish to find the total: 20 students + 5 students + 6 students = 31 students. The answer is 31.
Question: Zane purchases 2 polo shirts from the 40% off rack at the men’s store. The polo shirts are $50 each at the regular price. How much did he pay for the shirts?
Answer:
At regular price, the polo shirts are 2 x $50 = $100. At 40% off, he gets a discount of , $100 x 40% = $40. With this discount, the polo shirts cost $100 - $40 = $60. The answer is 60.