Answer the following question.
Jake's neighbors hire him to mow their lawn and plant some flowers. Mowing the lawn takes 1 hour and pays $15. If Jake wants to make $20/hour working for the neighbors, and planting the flowers takes 2 hours, how much should Jake charge (in total, not per hour) for planting the flowers?
Step-by-step reasoning process: First figure out how many hours total Jake works by adding the time spent mowing the lawn to the time spent planting flowers: 1 hour + 2 hours = 3 hours. Then figure out how much money Jake makes if he earns $20 / hour for three hours by multiplying the time spent by the pay rate: $20 / hour * 3 hours = $60. Then subtract the money Jake gets paid for mowing the lawn from the total to find how much he should charge in total for planting the flowers: $60 - $15 = $45.
The answer is 45.

Answer the following question.
Bill is a painter who is hired to paint a client’s house. The house has three bedrooms, and twice as many other rooms as bedrooms. The client wants each bedroom painted a different color, and the other rooms painted white. Each room takes 2 gallons of paint. Color paint comes in 1-gallon paint cans, and white paint comes in 3-gallon cans. How many cans of paint will Bill need for the whole house?
Step-by-step reasoning process: Bill needs 2 * 3 = 6 gallons of color paint for the 3 bedrooms. Thus, he needs 6 / 1 = 6 cans of color paint for the bedrooms. There are 2 * 3 = 6 other rooms in the house. He needs 2 * 6 = 12 gallons of white paint for the other rooms. Thus, he needs 12 / 3 = 4 cans of white paint. In all, Bill needs 4 + 6 = 10 cans of paint for the whole house.
The answer is 10.

Answer the following question.
Hannah bought 3 sweatshirts and 2 T-shirts. Each sweatshirt cost 15$ and each t-shirt cost 10$. How much money did Hannah spend in all?
Step-by-step reasoning process: 3 sweatshirts cost 3 x 15 = 45$. 2 t - shirts cost 2 x 10 = 20 $. In total Hannah spent 45 + 20 = 65$.
The answer is 65.

Answer the following question.
Aleesia lost 1.5 pounds each week for 10 weeks. Alexei lost 2.5 pounds each week for 8 weeks. How many pounds did the two friends combine to lose?
Step-by-step reasoning process: Alessia = 1.5 * 10 = 15 pounds. Alexei = 2.5 * 8 = 20 pounds. 15 + 20 = 35 pounds. Together they lost 35 pounds.
The answer is 35.