Question: Billy can spit a watermelon seed 30 inches. Madison can spit a watermelon seed 20% farther than Billy. Ryan can spit a watermelon seed 50% shorter than Madison. How far can Ryan spit a watermelon seed?
Answer: Madison can spit a seed 20% farther than Billy's 30 inches so that's .20 * 30 = 6 inches farther. Billy spits a seed 30 inches and Madison can spit 6 inches farther for a total of 30 + 6 = 36 inches. Ryan can spit a seed 50% shorter than Madison's 36 inches for a total of .50 * 36 = 18 inches. The answer is 18.

Question: A building has four floors with ten rooms each. Legacy has to clean each room, and it takes her 6 hours to clean one room. If she earns $15 per hour of work, calculate the total amount of money she makes from cleaning all the floors in the building.
Answer: Since the building has four floors with ten rooms each, the total number of rooms in the building is 4 * 10 = 40. If it takes Legacy 6 hours to clean each room, she will take 40 * 6 = 240 hours to clean all the rooms in the building. Since she is making $15 per hour of work, she will earn $15 * 240 = $3600 after cleaning all the rooms. The answer is 3600.

Question: Lilah's family gallery has 400 photos. On a two-day trip to the Grand Canyon, they took half as many photos they have in the family's gallery on the first day and 120 more photos than they took on the first day on the second day. If they added all these photos to the family gallery, calculate the total number of photos in the gallery.
Answer: On their first day to the grand canyon, the family took half as many photos as the ones they have in the gallery, meaning they took 1 / 2 * 400 = 200 photos. The total number of photos if they add the ones they took on the first day to the family's gallery is 400 + 200 = 600. On the second day, they took 120 more photos than they took on the first day, a total of 200 + 120 = 320 photos. After adding the photos they took on the second day to the galley, the number of photos will be 600 + 320 = 920. The answer is 920.

Question: Linda makes $10.00 an hour babysitting. There is a $25.00 application fee for each college application she submits. If she is applying to 6 colleges, how many hours will she need to babysit to cover the application fees?
Answer:
The application fee is $25.00 per college and she is applying to 6 colleges so that's 25 * 6 = $150.00. She makes $10.00 an hour babysitting. Her application fees total $150.00 so she needs to work 150 / 10 = 15 hours to cover the cost. The answer is 15.