Q: Sam the butcher made sausage by grinding up 10 pounds of spicy meat mix, loading it into a tube casing, and creating a string of 40 sausage links. Then, she hung up the string of sausage links in her cooler. Later that evening, Brandy, Sam’s Golden Retriever, broke into the cooler and ate 12 links of sausage. After Brandy’s feast, how many ounces of sausage meat were contained in the remaining links?
A: There are 16 ounces in one pound, and thus in 10 pounds of meat mix there are 10 * 16 = 160 ounces of sausage meat. Thus, the 40 sausage links contained 160 ounces of meat, or 160 / 40 = 4 ounces per link. If Brandy ate 12 links, then 40 - 12 = 28 links remained. Thus, 28 remaining links, at 4 ounces per link, contained 28 * 4 = 112 ounces of meat. The answer is 112.
Question: Mark is running for an election and wins 70% of the votes in an area with 100,000 voters. He got twice as many total votes in the remaining area. How many votes did he get in total?
Answer: He got 100,000 * .7 = 70,000 votes from the first area. He got 70,000 * 2 = 140,000 votes in the remaining areas. So in total he got 140,000 + 70,000 = 210,000 votes. The answer is 210000.
[Question]The result from the 40-item Statistics exam Marion and Ella took already came out. Ella got 4 incorrect answers while Marion got 6 more than half the score of Ella. What is Marion's score?
[Answer]Ella's score is 40 items - 4 items = 36 items. Half of Ella's score is 36 items / 2 = 18 items. So, Marion's score is 18 items + 6 items = 24 items. The answer is 24.
Q: An investment bank gives 10 percent interest at the end of every month. How much money in total will you have, including interest, at the end of 2 months if you invest $300?
A: After the first month you get 10 / 100 * $300 = $30 interest. After the first month you will have $300 + $30 = $330 in total. After the second month you get = 10 / 100 * $330 = $33 interest. After the second month you will have $330 + $33 = $363 in total. The answer is 363.
Question: There are 50 staplers in the stapler. Stacie staples 3 dozen reports on her desk. How many staplers are left in the stapler?
Answer: Stacie staples 3 x 12 = 36 reports. There are 50 - 36 = 14 staplers left in the stapler. The answer is 14.
Q: In a classroom of 81 students, two-thirds are wearing striped shirts while the others are wearing checkered shirts. If there are 19 more students wearing shorts than checkered shirts, how many more students are wearing striped shirts than shorts?
A:
81 / 3 = 27 students are wearing checkered shirts. 27 x 2 = 54 students are wearing striped shirts. 27 + 19 = 46 students are wearing shorts. 54 - 46 = 8 more students are wearing striped shirts than shorts. The answer is 8.