Question: At a softball game, three players are having a sunflower eating contest. The first player eats 78 seeds. The second eats 53 seeds. The third eats 30 more seeds than the second. How many do they eat in total?
Answer: The third player eats 83 seeds because 53 + 30 = 83. They eat 214 in total because 78 + 53 + 83 = 214. The answer is 214.
[Question]A tree had 1000 leaves before the onset of the dry season, when it sheds all its leaves. In the first week of the dry season, the tree shed 2/5 of the leaves. In the second week, it shed 40% of the remaining leaves. In the third week, the tree shed 3/4 times as many leaves as it shed on the second week. Calculate the number of leaves the tree hadn't shed by the third week.
[Answer]In the first week, the tree shed 2 / 5 * 1000 = 400 leaves. The number of leaves remaining on the tree at the end of the first week is 1000 - 400 = 600. In the second week, the tree shed 40 / 100 * 600 = 240 leaves. The number of leaves remaining on the tree is 600 - 240 = 360. The third week the tree shed 3 / 4 of its leaves, a total of 3 / 4 * 360 = 270 leaves. The number of leaves remaining on the tree is 360 - 270 = 90 leaves. The answer is 90.
Q: Aston has accidentally torn apart his comics and needs to put all the pages back together. Each comic has 25 pages and Aston has found 150 pages on the floor. He puts his comics back together and adds them back into his box of comics. If there were already 5 untorn comics in the box, how many comics are now in the box of comics?
A: Aston had torn and has now fixed a total of 150 pages on the floor / 25 pages per comic = 6 comics. Adding this to the comics that were never torn means there are 6 fixed comics + 5 untorn comics = 11 comics in the box of comics. The answer is 11.
Question: James does chores around the class. There are 3 bedrooms, 1 living room, and 2 bathrooms to clean. The bedrooms each take 20 minutes to clean. The living room takes as long as the 3 bedrooms combined. The bathroom takes twice as long as the living room. He also cleans the outside which takes twice as long as cleaning the house. He splits the chores with his 2 siblings who are just as fast as him. How long, in hours, does he work?
Answer: It takes 3 * 20 = 60 minutes to clean the living room. So it is 60 / 60 = 1 hour. The bathroom takes 1 * 2 = 2 hours. So all together the inside takes 1 + 1 + 2 = 4 hours. The outside takes 4 * 2 = 8 hours. So the chores take 4 + 8 = 12 hours. He splits it 1 + 2 = 3 ways. So he works 12 / 3 = 4 hours. The answer is 4.
[Question]An alien invades Earth. It abducts 200 people. He returns 80% of the people abducted. After that he takes 10 people to another planet. He took the rest to his home planet. How many people did he take to his home planet?
[Answer]He returned 200 * .8 = 160 people. So he had 200 - 160 = 40 people. He took 10 of those to another planet so he took 40 - 10 = 30 to his home planet. The answer is 30.
[Question]Andrea buys herself a pony for her 30th birthday. She pays $500/month to rent a pasture for it, $10 a day for food, and $60/lesson for two lessons a week. How much does she spend on her pony in a year?
[Answer]
First find the annual cost of food: $10 / day * 365 days = $3650. Then find how much she spends a week on lessons: $60 / lesson * 2 lessons = $120. Then multiply that weekly cost by the number of weeks per year to find the annual cost: $120 / week * 52 weeks / year = $6240. Then find the annual cost of the pasture: $500 / month * 12 months / year = $6000. Then add all the costs to find the total cost: $6000 + $6240 + $3650 = $15890. The answer is 15890.