Question: Andy needs to drive from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles. The drive from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas is 420 miles. The drive from Las Vegas to Los Angeles is 273 miles. He wants to make the drive in 11 hours. What's the average minimum speed that Andy needs to drive to reach Los Angeles in 11 hours?
Answer: The total distance of the trip is 420 + 273 = 693 miles. To make the trip Andy must drive 693 miles / 11 hours = 63 miles per hour. The answer is 63.
[Question]The length of the straight part of a river is three times shorter than the crooked part. If the river is 80 miles long, how long is the straight part of the river?
[Answer]Let's say the river's length in the straight part of the river is x. The total length of the river is the length of the straight part plus 3 times the length of the straight part for the crooked part, which is x + 3x = 80. The total length of the river is 4x = 80. The straight part of the river is x = 80 / 4 = 20 miles. The answer is 20.
Q: Liza bought 10 kilograms of butter to make cookies. She used one-half of it for chocolate chip cookies, one-fifth of it for peanut butter cookies, and one-third of the remaining butter for sugar cookies. How many kilograms of butter are left after making those three kinds of cookies?
A: Liza used 10 / 2 = 5 kilograms of butter for the chocolate chip cookies. Then, she used 10 / 5 = 2 kilograms of butter for the peanut butter cookies. She used 5 + 2 = 7 kilograms of butter for the chocolate and peanut butter cookies. So, only 10 - 7 = 3 kilograms of butter was left. Then, Liza used 3 / 3 = 1 kilograms of butter for the sugar cookies. Therefore, only 3 - 1 = 2 kilograms of butter were left. The answer is 2.
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.
[Question]James invests $2000 a week into his bank account. He had $250,000 in his account when the year started. At the end of the year, he gets a windfall that is worth 50% more than what he has in his bank account.  How much money does he have?
[Answer]He deposited 2000 * 52 = $104,000 into his account. So he has 250000 + 104000 = $354,000. His windfall is worth .5 * 354,000 = $177,000 more than his current account. That means he got 177,000 + 354,000 = $531,000. So he had a total of 531,000 + 354,000 = $885,000. The answer is 885000.
[Question]Ryan has 40 balls. There are twice as many red balls as blue while the rest are green. If there are 11 blue balls, how many green balls are there?
[Answer]
There are 11 blue x 2 red / blue = 22 red balls. The total number of blue and red balls is 11 blue + 22 red = 33 balls. There are 40 balls - 33 balls = 7 green balls. The answer is 7.