Q: A construction company is building 2 apartment buildings with 12 floors each. The apartments are almost ready to sell but all of them need doors to be completed. Each floor has 6 apartments, and each apartment needs 7 doors in total. How many doors does the company need to buy?
A: The number of floors is 12 floors / building x 2 buildings = 24 floors. The number of apartments is 6 apartments / floor x 24 floors = 144 apartments. The company has to buy 7 doors / apartment x 144 apartments = 1008 doors. The answer is 1008.
Question: Chad bought 6 packages of cat food and 2 packages of dog food. Each package of cat food contained 9 cans, and each package of dog food contained 3 cans. How many more cans of cat food than dog food did Chad buy?
Answer: Chad's cat food total was 6 packages * 9 cans = 54 cans of cat food. Chad's dog food total was 2 packages * 3 cans = 6 cans of dog food. Chad had 54 cans of cat food - 6 cans of dog food = 48 more cans of cat food. The answer is 48.
[Question]The teacher agrees to order pizza for the class. For every student in the class, she will buy 2 pieces of cheese and 1 piece of onion and they will eat exactly that amount. A large pizza has 18 slices. She orders 6 total pizzas and there are 8 pieces of cheese and 4 pieces of onion leftover. How many students are in the class?
[Answer]Cheese pizzas are 2 / 3 of the pizza's purchased because 2 / (2 + 1) = 2 / 3. She buys 4 cheese pizzas because 6 x (2 / 3) = 4. These give her 72 pieces of cheese pizza because 4 x 18 = 72. The students at 64 pieces of cheese because 72 - 8 = 64. There are 32 students in her class because 64 / 2 = 32. The answer is 32.
Q: Suzie and 5 of her friends decide to rent an Airbnb at Lake Tahoe for 4 days from Thursday to Sunday. The rental rate for weekdays is $420 per day. The weekend rental rate is $540 per day. They all decide to split the rental evenly. How much does each person have to pay?
A: The cost of the rental for Thursday and Friday comes to $420 * 2 = $840. The cost of the rental for Saturday and Sunday comes to $540 * 2 = $1080. The total cost of the rental comes to $840 + 1080 = $1920. The payment required for each person comes to $1920 / 6 = $320. The answer is 320.
Question: September's temperature fluctuated severely in 1 week. They started off with 40 degrees on Sunday then hit 50 on Monday, 65 on Tuesday, 36 on Wednesday, 82 on Thursday, 72 on Friday and ended the week at 26 on Saturday. What was the average temperature for that week?
Answer: When you add up the temperature for the entire week, it comes to 40 + 50 + 65 + 36 + 82 + 72 + 26 = 371. These temperatures were over 7 days so the average temperature was 371 / 7 = 53 degrees. The answer is 53.
Q: Alex had 36 ounces of jelly beans. He ate 6 ounces. Then he divided the rest equally into 3 piles. How much does each pile weigh?
A:
Start by taking out the ones he ate: 36 ounces - 6 ounces = 30 ounces. Divide the remainder equally: 30 ounces / 3 piles = 10 ounces per pile. The answer is 10.