Q: John makes 6 dozen cookies for a bake sale. He sells each cookie for $1.5 and each cookie costs $0.25 to make. He splits the profit between two charities evenly. How much does each charity get?
A: He makes 6 * 12 = 72 cookies. Each cookie makes a profit of $1.5 - $0.25 = $1.25. So he makes a profit of 72 * $1.25 = $90. That means each charity gets $90 / 2 = $45. The answer is 45.
Question: The Eat "N Go Mobile Sausage Sandwich Shop specializes in the sale of spicy sausage sandwiches served on a toasted bun. Each sausage sandwich comes with four strips of jalapeno pepper, one sausage patty, and a tablespoon of Stephen's famous special sauce. If a single jalapeno pepper makes 8 slices, and the Sandwich Shop serves a sandwich every 5 minutes, how many jalapeno peppers are required by the Sandwich Shop to serve all customers during an 8-hour day?
Answer: If each sandwich comes with 4 strips of pepper, and each pepper makes 8 slices, then each sandwich uses 4 / 8 = 0.5 pepper. If the Sandwich Shop serves a sandwich every 5 minutes, then per hour the Shop serves 60 / 5 = 12 sandwiches. Thus, per hour, the Shop uses 12 * 0.5 = 6 jalapeno peppers. And in an 8 - hour day, the Sandwich Shop uses 8 * 6 = 48 jalapeno peppers. The answer is 48.
[Question]Matthew, the baker, arrives at work early every morning to make his famous caramel-apple coffee cakes for the day. It usually takes Matthew 1 hour to assemble ingredients, 1.5 hours to bake the cakes, and another 1 hour to decorate each cake with cinnamon sprinkles. One day, Matthew's oven failed to reach the correct temperature and it took twice as long for the cakes to bake as they usually take. On that day, how long did it take, in hours, for Matthew to make his famous caramel-apple coffee cakes?
[Answer]Twice 1.5 hours is 2 * 1.5 = 3 hours. Thus, on that day, it took Matthew 1 + 3 + 1 = 5 hours to make the cakes. The answer is 5.
Q: A zoo has 21 penguins and twice as many polar bears? How many total animals do they have?
A: There are 21 * 2 = 42 polar bears. So the total 21 + 42 = 63 total animals. The answer is 63.
Question: Miss Darlington has a basket of 20 blueberries. She picked 9 more baskets with the same amount of berries. How many blueberries did Miss Darlington have in all?
Answer: Miss Darlington picked 9 x 20 = 180 blueberries more. So she had a total of 180 + 20 = 200 blueberries. The answer is 200.
Q: Connor sleeps 6 hours a night. His older brother Luke sleeps 2 hours longer than Connor. Connor’s new puppy sleeps twice as long as Luke. How long does the puppy sleep?
A:
Luke sleeps 2 hours longer than Connor who sleeps 6 hours so that’s 2 + 6 = 8 hours. The new puppy sleeps twice as long as Luke, who sleeps 8 hours, so the puppy sleeps 2 * 8 = 16 hours. The answer is 16.