Question: One batch of cookies requires 4 cups of flour and 1.5 cups of sugar. How many cups of flour and sugar combined would be needed for 8 batches?
Answer: Flour + sugar = 4 + 1.5 = 5.5 cups. 8 batches = 5.5 * 8 = 44 cups. There would be 44 cups of flour and sugar combined for 8 batches of cookies. The answer is 44.
[Question]Laran has started a poster business. She is selling 5 posters per day at school. Two posters per day are her large posters that sell for $10. The large posters cost her $5 to make. The remaining posters are small posters that sell for $6. They cost $3 to produce. How much profit, in dollars, does Laran make per 5-day school week?
[Answer]The profit made for each large poster is $10 - $5 = $5. Each day Laran earns $5 * 2 = $10 from selling large posters. The profit made for each small poster is $6 - $3 = $3. Each day Laran earns $3 * 3 = $9 from selling small posters. Laran makes a total profit of $10 + $9 = $19 per day. For a 5 day school week, Laran makes a profit of 5 * $19 = $95. The answer is 95.
Q: Scout delivers groceries on the weekends. His base pay is $10.00 an hour. He also earns a $5.00 tip per customer that he delivers groceries to. On Saturday he worked 4 hours and delivered groceries to 5 people. Sunday he worked 5 hours and delivered groceries to 8 people. How much did he make over the weekend?
A: He worked 4 hours on Saturday and 5 hours on Sunday for a total of 4 + 5 = 9 hours. His base pay is $10.00 an hour and he worked 9 hours for a total of 10 * 9 = $90.00. He delivered groceries to 5 people on Saturday and 8 people on Sunday for a total of 5 + 8 = 13 deliveries. He makes $5.00 per delivery and he delivered to 13 people so he made 5 * 13 = $65.00. His base pay is $90.00 and he made $65.00 in tips for a total of 90 + 65 = $155.00. The answer is 155.
Question: Nelly is very pleased with the painting she bought at the auction. She tells her daughter that she outbid her rival Joe by paying $2000 more than thrice his bid. If Joe’s bid was $160,000, at how much did Nelly get the painting?
Answer: Three times Joe’s bid is 3 * 160000 = 480000 dollars. Since Nelly paid an additional $2000, she paid 2000 + 480000 = 482000 dollars. The answer is 482000.
[Question]Marta is weighing fruit at the grocery store. The apples weigh four ounces each and the oranges weight 3 ounces. Each plastic bag in the grocery store can hold 49 ounces of fruit before it splits. If Martha wants to put an equal number of apples and oranges in each bag, and she wants to buy 3 full bags of fruit, how many ounces of apples should she buy?
[Answer]First figure out how many ounces of fruit fit in three bags by multiplying the number of bags by the number of ounces per bag: 49 oz / bag * 3 bags = 147 oz. Since Marta wants the same number of apples and oranges in each bag, we know the fruits always come in pairs. Find the weight of each pair of fruit by adding the weight of one apple to the weight of one orange: 3 oz + 4 oz = 7oz. Now figure out how many pairs of fruit Marta needs to fill the bags by dividing the total weight in the bags by the weight of each pair of fruit: 147 oz / 7 oz = 21. Now multiply the number of apples Marta needs to buy (21) by the weight per apple (4 oz) to find how many ounces she should buy: 21 * 4 oz = 84 oz. The answer is 84.
[Question]Zoe made a total of $8,000 cleaning pools and babysitting. She babysat Julie three times as often as she babysat Zachary. The number of times she babysat Zachary was 1/5 the number of times she babysat Chloe. If Zoe made $600 babysitting Zachary, how much did she earn from pool cleaning?
[Answer]
From babysitting Julie, Zoe made 3 * 600 = 1800 dollars, since she made $600 babysitting Zachary and she babysat Julie three times as often. Since she babysat Zachary 1 / 5 as often as she babysat Chloe, she made an additional 5 * 600 = 3000 dollars from babysitting Chloe. All together, the babysitting sessions made Zoe 600 + 1800 + 3000 = 5400 dollars. Subtracting babysitting payments from the total gives 8000 - 5400 = 2600 dollars. Zoe therefore made 2600 dollars cleaning pools. The answer is 2600.