Question: Salem loves to write poems, and she always stores her poem in a creativity box kept safely in her home library. Last week, she created a poem with 20 stanzas. If each stanza has 10 lines, and each line has 8 words, calculate the total number of words in the poem.
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: If each line that Salem created in her poem has 8 words, the total number of words in a stanza, which is 10 lines, is 8 words / line * 10 lines / stanza = 80 words / stanza. With 20 stanzas, each containing 80 words per stanza, the total is 80 words / stanza * 20 stanzas = 1600 words in all the stanzas(poem).
So the answer is 1600.

Question: John has to replace the ball bearings for machines he works with. He has 10 machines and they take 30 ball bearings each. It normally costs $1 per ball bearing but right now there is a sale where they are only $.75. Also since he is buying in bulk he gets a further 20% discount. How much money did he save by buying them all during the sale rather than 1 at a time?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: He needs to replace 30 * 10 = 300 ball bearings. The normal price is 300 * 1 = $300. Because of the sale he only has to pay 300 * .75 = $225. He then gets a discount which shaves another 225 * .2 = $45 off the price. That means he only pays 225 - 45 = $180. So he saved 300 - 180 = $120.
So the answer is 120.

Question: Peter is raking leaves. It takes him 15 minutes to rake 3 bags of leaves. If he keeps raking at the same rate, how long will it take him to rake 8 bags?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: We are trying to figure out how long it will take Peter to rake 8 bags of leaves, so we'll call that Y. And we know Peter can rake 3 bags of leaves / 15 minutes = 8 bags of leaves / Y. Next, we will multiply to find the cross - products. 3 x Y = 15 x 8 or 3Y = 120. We want to get figure out Y, so we need to get it by itself by dividing by 3, like this: 3Y / 3 = 120 / 3 or Y = 40 minutes.
So the answer is 40.

Question: Bryan works as a social media account manager. He does marketing posts, advertisement posts, and customer outreach posts. His client has him spend four hours on customer outreach posts and half that time on advertisement posts each day. Bryan works eight hours a day. How much time in hours each day does he spend on marketing posts?
Answer:
Step-by-step reasoning process: Let M be the number of hours Bryan spends on marketing posts. He spends 4 / 2 = 2 hours on advertisement posts a day. He works M + 4 + 2 = 8 hours a day. Thus, Bryan spends M = 8 - 4 - 2 = 2 hours on marketing posts each day.
So the answer is 2.