Question: A gumball machine has red, green, and blue gumballs. The machine has half as many blue gumballs as red gumballs. For each blue gumball, the machine has 4 times as many green gumballs. If the machine has 16 red gumballs how many gumballs are in the machine?
Answer: There are 16 / 2 = 8 blue gumballs. There are 8 * 4 = 32 green gumballs. There are 16 + 32 + 8 = 56 total gumballs. The answer is 56.
[Question]Ethan is reading a sci-fi book that has 360 pages. He read 40 pages on Saturday morning and another 10 pages at night. The next day he read twice the total pages as on Saturday. How many pages does he have left to read?
[Answer]Ethan read a total of 40 pages + 10 pages = 50 pages on Saturday. On the next day, he read a total of 50 pages x 2 = 100 pages. The total number of pages that Ethan had read is 50 pages + 100 pages = 150 pages. Therefore, Ethan has 360 pages - 150 pages = 210 pages left to read. The answer is 210.
Q: Pat is buying supplies for S'mores. He and his friends will each eat 3 S'mores. There are 8 of them in total. It costs $3 in supplies to make 4 S'mores. How much will it cost to buy all the supplies?
A: They are making 24 S'mores because 8 x 3 = 24. Each S'more costs $.75 to make because 3 / 4 = .75. It will cost $18 to make them all because 24 x .75 = 18. The answer is 18.
Question: While shopping, Greg spent 300$ on a shirt and shoes. If Greg spent 9 more than twice as much on shoes as he did a shirt, how much did Greg spend on a shirt?
Answer: Let x be the amount spent on a shirt. Greg spent 2x + 9 dollars on shoes. 300 = x + (2x + 9). 300 = 3x + 9. 291 = 3x. x = 97$. Greg spent 97$ on a shirt. The answer is 97.
[Question]300 cows in a field are made up of male and female cows. There are twice as many females as males. Half the females are spotted, and half the males have horns. How many more females with spots are there than males with horns?
[Answer]There are (300 / 3) x 2 = 100 x 2 = 200 females cows in the field. There are 200 / 2 = 100 male cows in the field. 200 / 2 = 100 female cows are spotted. 100 / 2 = 50 male cows have horns. There are 100 - 50 = 50 more females with spots than males with horns. The answer is 50.
[Question]Mr. Smith takes his wife, his parents, and his 3 children to a seafood buffet. The price for the adult buffet is $30. The price for the children’s buffet is $15. Senior citizens get a 10% discount. How much does Mr. Smith spend on the buffet for his entire family?
[Answer]
The buffet cost for Mr. Smith and his wife is $30 x 2 = $60. The buffet cost for his children is $15 x 3 = $45. The buffet cost for 1 senior citizen is $30 x 90% = $27. B. uffet cost for the grandparents is $27 x 2 = $54. Buffet cost for the entire family is $60 + $45 + $54 = $159. The answer is 159.