Q: Mrs. Garcia pays her insurance quarterly at $378. How much does she pay in a year for her insurance?
A: Since there are three months in a quarter, then there are 12 / 3 = 4 quarters in a year. So, Mrs. Garcia pays $378 x 4 = $1512 in a year for her insurance. The answer is 1512.
Question: Tom attends a party that collects $2000. Half the school attended and the school had 400 people. How much would they have made if 300 people attended?
Answer: There were 400 / 2 = 200 people in attendance. So that means each person paid 2000 / 200 = $10. So if 300 people attended they would have made 300 * 10 = $3000. The answer is 3000.
[Question]A water tank has a capacity of 4000 gallons. Mack connects a pipe to the tank that fills the tank with water at the rate of 10 gallons per hour. How long will it take to fill the tank to 3/4 of its capacity?
[Answer]3 / 4 of the water tank is 3 / 4 * 4000 = 3000. If the pipe fills the tank with water at the rate of 10 gallons per hour, it will take 3000 / 10 = 300 hours to fill the tank to 3 / 4 of its capacity. The answer is 300.
Q: A department store displays a 20% discount on all fixtures. What will be the new price of a 25 cm high bedside lamp that was worth $120?
A: The amount of the discount is $120 x 0.2 = $24. The new price will be $120 – $24 = $96. The answer is 96.
Question: A window has 4 glass panels each. A house has 6 double windows downstairs and 8 single windows upstairs. How many glass panels are there in the whole house?
Answer: There are 6 x 2 = 12 windows downstairs. There are 12 + 8 = 20 windows in the whole house. There are 20 x 4 = 80 glass panels in the whole house. The answer is 80.
Q: There were 25 peaches in each basket. Five baskets of peaches were delivered to a market. The farmers have eaten 5 peaches. The remaining peaches are packed into smaller boxes of 15 each. How many boxes of peaches are there?
A:
The total number of peaches delivered to a market was 5 x 25 = 125. The remaining peaches after 5 were eaten was 150 - 5 = 145. So, there are 120 / 15 = 8 smaller boxes of peaches. The answer is 8.