Q: A bushel of corn weighs 56 pounds and each individual ear of corn weighs .5 pounds. If Clyde picked 2 bushels of corn over the weekend, how many individual corn cobs did he pick?
A: He picked 2 bushels of corn and each bushel weighs 56 pounds so he picked 2 * 56 = 112 pounds of corn. Each ear of corn weighs .5 pounds and he has 112 pounds of corn so he picked 112 / .5 = 224 ears of corn. The answer is 224.
Question: Mama bird has 6 babies in the nest. She needs to feed each baby 3 worms a day. Papa bird caught 9 worms. If she caught 13 worms and had 2 stolen, how many more does she need to catch to feed them for 3 days?
Answer: Each day, mama bird needs to catch 6 x 3 = 18 worms. For 3 days, she needs 18 x 3 = 54 worms. She already has 13 - 2 = 11 worms. With papa bird’s catch, they have 11 + 9 = 20 worms. To feed the babies for 3 days, she needs to catch 54 - 20 = 34 more worms. The answer is 34.
[Question]John commissions an artist to make him a 9 by 13 drawing. A black and white drawing that size would cost $160. He wants a color drawing so that is 50% more expensive. How much did he pay?
[Answer]The extra cost for coloring is 160 * .5 = $80. So the total cost was 160 + 80 = $240. The answer is 240.
Q: The sum of the ages of two friends, Alma and Melina, is twice the total number of points Alma scored in a test. If Melina is three times as old as Alma, and she is 60, calculate Alma's score in the test?
A: If Melina is three times as old as Alma, and she is 60, Alma is 60 / 3 = 20 years old. The sum of their ages is 60 + 20 = 80 years. Since the sum of Alma and Melina's age is twice the total number of points Alma scored in a test, Alma's score in the test was 80 / 2 = 40 points. The answer is 40.
Question: Anais has 30 more toys than Kamari. There are 160 toys altogether. How many toys are there in Kamari's box?
Answer: Let's say Kamari has x toys. Anais has x + 30 toys. Combined, Anais and Kamari have a total of x + x + 30 = 160 toys. Combining like terms, we get 2x + 30 = 160. Subtracting 30 from both sides, we get 2x = 130. Dividing both sides by 2, we get x = 65, so the total number of toys that Kamari has is 65. The answer is 65.
Q: Sandra has a box of apples that weighs 120 pounds. She's going to use half the weight in apples to make applesauce. The rest will be used to make apple pies. She needs 4 pounds of apples per pie. How many pies will she be able to make?
A:
The box weighs 120 pounds and she's going to use half of it to make applesauce so she'll use 120 / 2 = 60 pounds for applesauce. The box weighs 120 pounds and she'll use 60 pounds for applesauce so that leaves 120 - 60 = 60 pounds of apples. She has 60 pounds of apples and she needs 4 pounds to make a pie so she can make 60 / 4 = 15 pies. The answer is 15.