Question: Krista started raising chickens. She has 10 hens who lay eggs. She sells the eggs for $3 a dozen. In four weeks, she sold $120 worth of eggs. If she sold all the eggs her hens laid, how many eggs does each hen lay a week?
Answer with step-by-step thinking: At $3 a dozen, Krista sold $120 / $3 = 40 dozen eggs. If 10 hens laid 40 dozen eggs in 4 weeks, that means 40 dozen eggs / 10 hens = 4 dozen eggs were laid by each hen in four weeks. To find out how many eggs each hen laid in a week, 4 dozen eggs / 4 weeks = 1 dozen eggs each week. Since a dozen has 12 eggs, each hen lays 12 * 1 = 12 eggs each week.
So the answer is 12.


Question: When the strawberries at Fruity Farm are ready for harvest, Miguel charges each interested picker $4 to access the strawberry fields. Once there, people pick as many strawberries as they wish, and then take them to Miguel for weighing and pricing. This year, the standard price of a pound of strawberries is $20. Miguel is a very generous man. He deducts the entrance charge from the cost of the harvest. Sally, Jenny and Moses have just finished their strawberry picking and are headed home. They paid $128 for their harvest. How many pounds of strawberry did they pick?
Answer with step-by-step thinking: To gain entry into the strawberry fields, Sally, Jenny and Moses paid a total of 4 * 3 = 12 dollars. This means that before Miguel applied the $12 discount, the cost was 128 + 12 = 140 dollars. We get the weight by dividing the cost by the price of strawberries per pound, 140 / 20 = 7 pounds.
So the answer is 7.


Question: James has a rainwater collection barrel. For each inch of rain he collects 15 gallons. On Monday it rained 4 inches and on Tuesday it rained 3 inches. He can sell water for $1.2 per gallon. How much money did he make from selling all the water?
Answer with step-by-step thinking:
It rained 3 + 4 = 7 inches. So he collected 7 * 15 = 105 gallons. So he makes 105 * 1.2 = $126 from selling the water.
So the answer is 126.