[Question]Trevor and two of his neighborhood friends go to the toy shop every year to buy toys. Trevor always spends $20 more than his friend Reed on toys, and Reed spends 2 times as much money as their friend Quinn on the toys. If Trevor spends $80 every year to buy his toys, calculate how much money in total the three spend in 4 years.
[Answer]If Trevor spends $20 more than Reed every year to buy toys, Reed spends $80 - $20 = $60. Since Reed uses $60 every year to buy toys, his friend Quinn uses 60 / 2 = $30 every year to buy toys. The total amount of money the three spend in a year together to buy toys is $30 + $60 + $80 = $170. The total amount of money the three will use to buy toys in 4 years is $170 * 4 = $680. The answer is 680.
Q: A store sold a certain brand of jeans for $40. They only have few pairs of jeans left so they decided to give 10% discount on every two pairs of jeans bought by a customer at any one time. How much will a customer pay for 3 pairs of jeans?
A: Two pairs of jeans cost $40 x 2 = $80. A discount of $80 x 10 / 100 = $8 will be given for this. Hence, the cost of two pairs of jeans will now be $80 - $8 = $72. Therefore, the customer will pay $72 + $40 = $112 for the three pairs of jeans. The answer is 112.
Question: Amanda needs 12 more marbles to have twice as many marbles as Katrina, and Mabel has 5 times as many marbles as Katrina. If Mabel has 85 marbles, how many more marbles does Mabel have than Amanda?
Answer: Katrina has 85 / 5 = 17 marbles. Twice as many marbles as Katrina is 17 x 2 = 34. Amanda has 34 - 12 = 22 marbles. Mabel has 85 - 22 = 63 more marbles than Amanda. The answer is 63.
[Question]Olivia earns $9 per hour. She worked 4 hours on Monday, 3 hours on Wednesday and 6 hours on Friday. How much money did Olivia make this week?
[Answer]Olivia made $9 * 4 hours = $36 on Monday. Olivia made $9 * 3 = $27 on Wednesday. Olivia made $9 * 6 hours = $54 on Friday. For the week Olivia made $36 + $27 + $54 = $117. The answer is 117.
Q: Mr. Caiden wants to do repairs to his house and requires 300 feet of metal roofing to do this. If each foot of roofing costs $8, and the supplier of the metal roofing brings in 250 feet of metal roofing for free, how much money is Mr. Caiden required to pay for the remaining metal roofing?
A: The supplier brought 300 ft - 250 ft = 50 fewer feet of metal roofing. Therefore the total amount of money Mr. Caiden has to pay for the remaining metal roofings is 50 feet * $8 / foot = $400. The answer is 400.
Question: Gary bought his first used car for $6,000. Gary borrowed the money from his dad who said he could pay him back the full amount over 5 years. Gary decided he would pay his dad back the full amount in 2 years. How much more is Gary spending per month to pay the loan off in 2 years instead of 5?
Answer:
A full year has 12 months. So 2 years is 2 * 12 = 24 months. The loan amount is $6,000 that he will repay in 24 months so 6000 / 24 = $250 per month. If he paid his dad back in 5 years that 5 * 12 = 60 months. $6,000 loan spread out over 60 months is 6000 / 60 = $100 per month. To pay it off in 2 years instead of 5, Gary is paying 250 - 100 = $150 more per month. The answer is 150.