Question: Salem loves to write poems, and she always stores her poem in a creativity box kept safely in her home library. Last week, she created a poem with 20 stanzas. If each stanza has 10 lines, and each line has 8 words, calculate the total number of words in the poem.
Answer: If each line that Salem created in her poem has 8 words, the total number of words in a stanza, which is 10 lines, is 8 words / line * 10 lines / stanza = 80 words / stanza. With 20 stanzas, each containing 80 words per stanza, the total is 80 words / stanza * 20 stanzas = 1600 words in all the stanzas(poem). The answer is 1600.
[Question]Frank invites his friends over to play video games. He bakes a pan of brownies before he arrives. He cuts 6 even columns and 3 even rows into the pan of brownies. If there are 6 people, including Frank, in total, how many brownies can they each eat?
[Answer]There are 6 * 3 = 18 brownies in total. Each person can eat 18 / 6 = 3 brownies. The answer is 3.
Q: At Hank’s cafe, he sells big stack pancakes which have 5 pancakes and short stack pancakes which have 3 pancakes. If 9 customers order the short stack and 6 customers order the big stack, how many pancakes does Hank need to make?
A: For the short stack orders, Hank needs to make 3 x 9 = 27 pancakes. For the big stack orders, he needs to make 5 x 6 = 30 pancakes. Altogether, Hank needs to make 27 + 30 = 57 pancakes. The answer is 57.
Question: Berry wants to make sure he reads an average of 50 pages a day. This week he read 43 pages on Sunday, 65 pages on Monday, and 28 pages on Tuesday. He had a soccer game and fell asleep early on Wednesday so he read nothing. On Thursday he read 70 pages, and on Friday he read 56 pages. How many pages does he have to read on Saturday to reach his goal?
Answer: He has to read 350 pages a week because 7 x 50 = 350. He has read 262 pages because 43 + 65 + 28 + 70 + 56 = 262. He has to read 88 pages on Saturday because 350 - 262 = 88. The answer is 88.
[Question]Happy Cattle Ranch is home to 200 cows. Every year, the mother cows have enough calves that the number of cows the rancher owns rises by half the number of cows living on the ranch. If the rancher does not buy or sell any cows, how many cows will the rancher own on Happy Cattle Ranch in two years?
[Answer]In one year, the rancher will have 200 + 200 / 2 = 200 + 100 = 300 cows. In two years, the rancher will have 300 + 300 / 2 = 300 + 150 = 450 cows. The answer is 450.
[Question]James spends 10 minutes downloading a game, half as long installing it, and triple that combined amount of time going through the tutorial. How long does it take before he can play the main game?
[Answer]
First divide the download time in half to find the install time: 10 minutes / 2 = 5 minutes. Then add that amount of time to the download time: 5 minutes + 10 minutes = 15 minutes. Then triple that amount of time to find the tutorial time: 15 minutes * 3 = 45 minutes. Then add that time to the install and downtime time to find the total time: 45 minutes + 15 minutes = 60 minutes. The answer is 60.