Question: A bag of chips weighs 20 ounces, and a tin of cookies weighs 9 ounces. If Jasmine buys 6 bags of chips and 4 times as many tins of cookies, how many pounds does she have to carry?
Answer: Jasmine’s bags of chips weigh 20 * 6 = 120 ounces. Jasmine buys 6 * 4 = 24 tins of cookies. Jasmine’s tins of cookies weigh 9 * 24 = 216 ounces. She has to carry 120 + 216 = 336 ounces. She has to carry 336 / 16 = 21 pounds. The answer is 21.
[Question]Jane is looking at a tree. At the same time, the tree and Jane are casting shadows - the tree of 10 meters and Jane of 0.5 meters. Jane is 1.5 meters tall. How tall is the tree?
[Answer]The shadow of Jane is 1.5 / 0.5 = 3 times smaller than her height. The height of the tree is therefore 3 times bigger than the shadow, so it's 3 * 10 = 30 meters tall. The answer is 30.
Q: The chicken crossed the road to get to the other side twice for the thrill of it. The first time, it had to dodge 23 speeding cars. The second time, a person tried to catch it and accidentally pulled out twice as many feathers as the number of cars the chicken had dodged. The chicken had 5263 feathers before its thrill-seeking road crossings. How many feathers did it have afterward?
A: The chicken lost 23 * 2 = 46 feathers on its second road crossing. Thus, it had 5263 - 46 = 5217 feathers after crossing the road twice. The answer is 5217.
Question: Jon’s textbooks weigh three times as much as Brandon’s textbooks. Jon has four textbooks that weigh two, eight, five and nine pounds respectively. How much do Brandon’s textbooks weigh?
Answer: Jon’s textbooks weigh 2 + 8 + 5 + 9 = 24 pounds. Thus, Brandon’s textbooks weigh 24 / 3 = 8 pounds. The answer is 8.
[Question]An artist spends 30 hours every week painting. If it takes her 3 hours to complete a painting, how many paintings can she make in four weeks?
[Answer]She completes 30 hours / week / 3 hours / painting = 10 paintings / week. So in one month, she paints 10 paintings / week * 4 weeks / month = 40 paintings. The answer is 40.
[Question]Hanna has twice as many erasers as Rachel. Rachel has three less than one-half as many erasers as Tanya has red erasers. If Tanya has 20 erasers, and half of them are red, how many erasers does Hanna have?
[Answer]
Half of Tanya's 20 erasers are red, so she has 20 / 2 = 10 red erasers. One - half as many erasers as Tanya has red erasers is 10 / 2 = 5 red erasers. Rachel's three less than one - half as many erasers as Tanya's red erasers, which is 5 - 3 = 2 erasers. Hanna has twice as many erasers as Rachel, for a total of 2 * 2 = 4 erasers. The answer is 4.