Question: Mary is going on a business trip. It takes 10 minutes for her Uber to get to her house and 5 times longer to get to the airport. It takes 15 minutes to check her bag and three times as long to get through security. Then she has to wait for 20 minutes for her flight to start boarding and twice as long before the plane is ready to take off. How many hours will this process take total?
Answer: First find the time to drive to the airport: 10 minutes * 5 = 50 minutes. Then find the time it takes to get through security: 15 minutes * 3 = 45 minutes. Then find the time Mary spends waiting for the plane to take off: 20 minutes * 2 = 40 minutes. Then add the time to each step to find the total time: 10 minutes + 50 minutes + 15 minutes + 45 minutes + 20 minutes + 40 minutes = 180 minutes. Then divide that amount by the number of minutes per hour to cover the total time to hours: 180 minutes / 60 minutes / hour = 3 hours. The answer is 3.
[Question]Chad is measuring the size of different countries. He sees that Canada is 1.5 times bigger than the United States and Russia is 1/3 bigger than Canada. How many times bigger is Russia than the United States?
[Answer]Canada equals 1.5 United States. Russia equals 2 United States because 1.5 x (1 + 1 / 3) = 2. The answer is 2.
Q: On a farm, there are 2 cows, 3 pigs, and 6 goats. The farmer planned on adding 3 cows, 5 pigs, and 2 goats. How many animals will there be on the farm?
A: Currently, the farm has 2 + 3 + 6 = 11 animals. The farmer will add 3 + 5 + 2 = 10 animals. So, the farm will have 11 + 10 = 21 animals. The answer is 21.
Question: Jeff’s swimming coach required him to swim 98 laps over the weekend. On Saturday, Jeff swam 27 laps. On Sunday morning, he swam 15 laps, took a break, then resumed practice in the afternoon. How many laps did Jeff have remaining when he took the break?
Answer: After Jeff swam on Saturday, there remained 98 - 27 = 71 laps. After Sunday morning’s 15 laps there remained 71 - 15 = 56 laps. Therefore, when Jeff took the break, he had 56 laps remaining. The answer is 56.
[Question]Remi prepared a tomato nursery and planted tomato seedlings. After 20 days, the seedlings were ready to be transferred. On the first day, he planted 200 seedlings on the farm. On the second day, while working alongside his father, he planted twice the number of seedlings he planted on the first day. If the total number of seedlings transferred to the farm on these two days was 1200, how many seedlings did his father plant?
[Answer]On the second day, he planted 2 * 200 seedlings = 400 seedlings. The total number of seedlings Remi planted on the two days is 400 seedlings + 200 seedlings = 600 seedlings. If the total number of seedlings transferred from the nursery was 1200 after the second day, Remi's father planted 1200 seedlings - 600 seedlings = 600 seedlings. The answer is 600.
[Question]A new book sold 15 copies at the bookstore on Wednesday. On Thursday the book sold three times that many copies. On Friday the book sold one-fifth the number of copies it did on Thursday. How many copies of the book did the bookstore sell by Friday?
[Answer]
On Thursday 15 * 3 = 45 books were sold. On Friday 45 / 5 = 9 books were sold. Adding up all three days 15 + 45 + 9 = 69 books were sold by Friday. The answer is 69.