Question: Danny has three picnics blankets. When they are unfolded they each have an area of 8 x 8. After he folds them up, their total area is 48 square feet. How many times did he fold them?
Answer: The total area of each blanket is 8 * 8 = 64. Their total area is 192 square feet because 3 x 64 = 192. He folded them 4 times because 192 / 48 = 4. The answer is 4.
[Question]If eight movie tickets cost 2 times as much as one football game ticket, and each movie ticket is sold at $30, calculate the total amount of money Chandler will pay if he buys eight movie tickets and five football game tickets.
[Answer]If each movie ticket is sold at $30, the cost of buying eight movie tickets is 8 * $30 = $240. Since eight movie tickets cost 2 times as much as one football game ticket, the cost of buying one football game ticket is $240 / 2 = $120. Buying five football game tickets will cost 5 * $120 = $600. The total cost of buying eight movie tickets and five football game tickets is $600 + $240 = $840. The answer is 840.
Q: Patrick has 4 hours less than twice the amount of time that Greg has left to finish his homework. Greg has six hours less than Jacob left to finish his homework. If Jacob has 18 hours left to finish his homework, calculate the total number of hours they all have left to finish their homework?
A: If Jacob has 18 hours left to finish his homework, Greg has 18 - 6 = 12 hours left to finish his homework. The total number of hours Jacob and Greg have left to finish their homework is 12 + 18 = 30 hours. Patrick has 4 hours less than twice Greg has left to finish his homework, meaning Patrick has 4 hours less than 12 * 2 = 24 hours left to finish his homework. Patrick has 24 - 4 = 20 hours left to finish his homework. Altogether, the three have 30 + 20 = 50 hours left to finish their homework. The answer is 50.
Question: Billy wants to watch something fun on YouTube but doesn't know what to watch. He has the website generate 15 suggestions but, after watching each in one, he doesn't like any of them. Billy's very picky so he does this a total of 5 times before he finally finds a video he thinks is worth watching. He then picks the 5th show suggested on the final suggestion list. What number of videos does Billy watch?
Answer: Billy has 15 suggestions generate for him 5 times for 15 * 5 = 75 videos. There are 15 - 5 = 10 shows in the final set of suggestions he doesn't consider. This means he picks the 75 - 10 = 65th show YouTube suggests. The answer is 65.
[Question]An office has 90 workers. 2/3rds of them are men and the rest are women. The company hires 10 new employees and 100% of them are women. What is the total percentage of women in the company now?
[Answer]1 / 3rd of the workers before the new hires were women because 1 - (2 / 3) = 1 / 3. There were 30 women working for the company before the new hires. There are now 40 women working for the company because 30 + 10 = 40. There are 100 people working for the company because 90 + 10 = 100. The proportion of women working in the company is .4 because 40 / 100 = .4. The percentage of women working in the company is now 40 because .4 x 100 = 40. The answer is 40.
[Question]Xavier needs 84 paper plates for a housewarming party. He already has 21 green plates and 28 red plates. How many more plates should Xavier buy?
[Answer]
The total number of green and red plates is 28 + 21 = 49. Xavier should buy 84 − 49 = 35 more plates. The answer is 35.