Question: Michael is stuck in an elevator that is slowly moving to the bottom floor. The elevator needs to move down 20 floors to reach the bottom. It takes 15 minutes for the elevator to travel down the first half of the floors. The elevator then takes 5 minutes per floor to travel down the next 5 floors. It then takes 16 minutes per floor for the elevator to finish traveling down the final 5 floors. In hours, how long did it take for the elevator to reach the bottom?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: Over 5 of the floors, it takes the elevator 5 floors * 5 minutes per floor = 25 minutes to lower. Over the final 5 floors, it takes the elevator 5 floors * 16 minutes per floor = 80 minutes to lower. So in total, the elevator takes 15 minutes in the first half + 25 minutes in the next five floors + 80 minutes in the final five floors = 120 minutes to lower to the bottom. This is the same as 120 minutes / 60 minutes per hour = 2 hours.
So the answer is 2.

Question: Bekah had to read 408 pages for history class. She read 113 pages over the weekend and has 5 days left to finish her reading. How many pages will she need to read each day for 5 days to complete her assignment?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: Pages left to read: 408 - 113 = 295 pages. 295 / 5 = 59 pages. Bekah needs to read 59 pages each day.
So the answer is 59.

Question: Karen packs peanut butter sandwiches in her daughter's lunch 2 randomly chosen days of the week. The other 3 school days, she packs a ham sandwich. She packs a piece of cake on one randomly chosen day and cookies the other four days. What is the probability, expressed as a percentage, that Karen packs a ham sandwich and cake on the same day?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: There are 5 school days in a week, so the probability Karen packs a ham sandwich is 3 / 5 and the probability she packs cake is 1 / 5. Multiply the two probabilities to find the probability both things happen: 3 / 5 * 1 / 5 = 3 / 25. Now divide 3 by 25 and multiply by 100% to express this probability as a percentage: 3 / 25 * 100% = 12%.
So the answer is 12.

Question: A new movie gets released and makes $120 million in the box office for its opening weekend. It ends up making 3.5 times that much during its entire run. If the production company gets to keep 60%, how much profit did they make if the movie cost $60 million to produce?
Answer:
Step-by-step reasoning process: Over the movies run it made 120 * 3.5 = 420 million. So the production company made 420,000,000 * .6 = $252,000,000. So they got a profit of 252,000,000 - 60,000,000 = $192,000,000.
So the answer is 192000000.