[Question]Ronald and his friend Max want to buy a new video game that was just released. The game costs $60. To earn money, they started selling ice cream in their yard, and they sell each ice cream for $5. How many ice creams will they need to sell for both to be able to afford to buy the game?
[Answer]They need $60 / game x 2 games = $120 in total. If one ice cream is sold for $5, they will need to sell $120 ÷ $5 / ice cream = 24 ice creams. The answer is 24.
Q: Sally was at a self-serve candy shop where you scoop candy from the bins and pay based on the weight. She scoops 32 cherry sours into a bag. Then she gets a scoop of lemon sours, and the ratio of cherry sours to lemon sours is 4:5. Then she gets a scoop of orange sours, and they make up 25% of the sours in the bag. How many sours does she have in total?
A: She has 4 cherry sours for every 5 lemon sours, so the number of lemon sours = (5 lemon sours * 32 cherry sours) / 4 cherry sours = 40 lemon sours. This puts the total at 32 cherry sours + 40 lemon sours = 72 sours. After the orange sours are added, they make up 25% of the total sours. Let x = the total number of sours. x - 0.25 * x = 72 sours = > 0.75 * x = 72 sours = > x = 72 sours / 0.75 = 96 sours total. The answer is 96.
Question: Marcus has three times as many cheese crackers as Mona. Nicholas has 6 more crackers than Mona. If Marcus has 27 crackers, how many crackers does Nicholas have?
Answer: Mona has 27 / 3 = 9 cheese crackers. Nicholas has 9 + 6 = 15 cheese crackers. The answer is 15.
[Question]Carlos bought a box of 50 chocolates. 3 of them were caramels and twice as many were nougats. The number of truffles was equal to the number of caramels plus 6. The rest of the chocolates were peanut clusters. If Carlos picks a chocolate at random, what is the percentage chance it will be a peanut cluster?
[Answer]First find the number of nougats by doubling the number of caramels: 3 caramels * 2 nougats / caramel = 6 nougats. Then find the number of truffles by adding 7 to the number of caramels: 3 caramels + 6 = 9 truffles. Then find the number of peanut clusters by subtracting the number of each other chocolate from the total number of chocolates: 50 chocolates - 3 caramels - 6 nougats - 9 truffles = 32 peanut clusters. Finally, divide the number of peanut clusters by the total number of chocolates and multiply by 100% to find the percentage chance he gets a peanut cluster: 32 peanut clusters / 50 chocolates * 100% = 64%. The answer is 64.
Q: Janet takes two multivitamins and 3 calcium supplements every day for the first 2 weeks of the month. For the last two weeks of the month, she runs low on calcium supplements and only takes one per day. How many pills does Janet take in that month?
A: First find the number of pills Janet takes every day for the first 2 weeks: 2 pills / day + 3 pills / day = 5 pills / day. Then find the number of days in 2 weeks: 2 weeks * 7 days / week = 14 days. Then multiply that number by the number of pills she takes daily to find the total number of pills she takes in the first 2 weeks: 5 pills / day * 14 days = 70 pills. Then find the number of pills Janet takes every day for the last 2 weeks: 2 pills / day + 1 pill / day = 3 pills / day. Then multiply that number by the number of days in 2 weeks to find the total number of pills she takes in the last 2 weeks: 3 pills / day * 14 days = 42 pills. Then add the number of pills she took in the first and last two weeks to find the total number of pills she took: 42 pills + 70 pills = 112 pills. The answer is 112.
Question: There have been 15 "Where's Waldo?" books published. Each book has 30 puzzles to find Waldo. The average person takes 3 minutes to find Waldo in a puzzle. How long would it take to find every Waldo?
Answer:
There have been 450 puzzles because 15 x 30 = 450. It would take 1,350 minutes to find all the Waldo's because 450 x 3 = 1,350. The answer is 1350.