Question: Hani said she would do 3 more situps per minute than Diana would. Diana then did 40 situps at a rate of 4 situps per minute. Calculate the total number of situps they did together.
Answer: Since Diana did 40 situps at a rate of 4 situps / minute, she did situps for 40 / 4 = 10 minutes. Hani had to do 3 + 4 = 7 situps per minute if Diana did 4 situps per minute. So over the 10 minutes Hani did 7 * 10 = 70 situps. Together, the total number of situps they did is 70 + 40 = 110. The answer is 110.
[Question]During a recent three-day trip to Italy, Keziah and her mom went mushroom picking. They sold all the mushrooms they picked on the first day for a total of $58. The day after, they picked 12 mushrooms. On the last day, they picked double the mushrooms they had picked the previous day. If the price per mushroom was $2, what is the total number of mushrooms they picked?
[Answer]Since each mushroom cost $2, on the first day Keziah and her mom picked and sold 58 / 2 = 29 mushrooms. After picking 12 mushrooms on the second day, the cumulative total became 29 + 12 = 41 mushrooms. On the third day, they picked double the previous day, which translates to 2 * 12 = 24 mushrooms. It therefore means that over the three days, Keziah and her mom picked a total of 41 + 24 = 65 mushrooms. The answer is 65.
Q: James buys jars for his honey. He has 5 hives that each produce 20 liters of honey. Each jar can hold .5 liters. How many jars will he need to buy if his friend is bringing his own jars for half the honey?
A: He produces 5 * 20 = 100 liters of honey. That means he keeps 100 / 2 = 50 liters of honey. So he needs 50 / .5 = 100 jars. The answer is 100.
Question: Luigi bought four pizzas for $80. Each pizza was cut into 5 pieces. How much did each piece of pizza cost, in dollars?
Answer: 4 pizzas at $80 per pizza is $80 / 4 = $20 per pizza. If there were 5 pieces per pizza, then each piece was worth $20 / 5 = $4. The answer is 4.
[Question]Ann can skate 6 miles an hour. Her friend Glenda can skate 8 miles an hour. If they start in the same place and skate in straight lines in opposite directions for 3 hours, how many miles apart do they end up?
[Answer]First find how far Glenda goes in 3 hours by multiplying her speed by the number of hours she travels: 3 hours * 8 miles / hour = 24 miles. Then do the same thing for Ann: 3 hours * 6 miles / hour = 18 miles. Now add the number of miles both people skated to find the total distance between them: 18 miles + 24 miles = 42 miles. The answer is 42.
[Question]Martha is making centerpieces for her Thanksgiving dinner. There are six centerpieces, and each centerpiece uses 8 roses, twice as many orchids as roses, and a certain number of lilies. If Martha wants to spend $2700 total, and each flower costs $15, how many lilies will she put in each centerpiece?
[Answer]
First figure out how many total flowers Martha is going to buy by dividing her total spending by the price per flower: $2700 / $15 / flower = 180 flowers. Now figure out how many flowers are in each centerpiece by dividing the total number of flowers by the number of centerpieces: 180 flowers / 6 centerpieces = 30 flowers / centerpiece. Now figure out how many orchids are in each centerpiece by multiplying the number of roses per centerpiece by 2: 8 roses / centerpiece * 2 = 16 orchids / centerpiece. Now subtract the number of roses and orchids per centerpiece from the total number of flowers per centerpiece to find the number of lilies per centerpiece: 30 flowers - 16 orchids - 8 roses = 6 lilies. The answer is 6.