[Question]Mark bought 2 pounds of tomatoes for $5 per pound and 5 pounds of apples, at $6 per pound. How much did he spend in total?
[Answer]Mark bought 2 pounds of tomatoes for $5 / pound * 2 pounds = $10. Mark bought 5 pounds of apples for $6 / pound * 5 pounds = $30. Now add those two quantities to find Mark's total spending: $30 + $10 = $40. The answer is 40.
Q: Christopher, Jameson, and June each bought a toy sword. June's sword is 5 inches longer than Jameson's sword. Jameson's sword is 3 inches longer than twice the length of Christopher's sword. Christopher's sword is 15 inches long. How many inches longer is June's sword than Christopher's sword?
A: Twice the length of Christopher's sword is 15 x 2 = 30 inches. So, Jameson's sword is 30 + 3 = 33 inches long. June's sword is 33 + 5 = 38 inches long. Thus, June's sword is 38 - 15 = 23 inches longer than Christopher's sword. The answer is 23.
Question: Mrs. Fredrickson has 80 chickens where 1/4 are roosters and the rest are hens. Only three-fourths of those hens lay eggs. How many chickens does Mr. Fredrickson have that do not lay eggs?
Answer: Mrs. Fredrickson has 80 x 1 / 4 = 20 roosters. So he has 80 - 20 = 60 hens. Only 60 x 3 / 4 = 45 of the hens lay eggs. Thus, 60 - 45 = 15 hens do not lay eggs. Therefore, Mr. Fredrickson has a total of 15 hens + 20 roosters = 35 chickens that do not lay eggs. The answer is 35.
[Question]Alicia has 20 gumballs. Pedro has that many gumballs plus an additional number of gumballs equal to three times the number Alicia has. They put their gumballs in a bowl, and later Pedro takes out 40% of the gumballs to eat. How many gumballs are remaining in the bowl?
[Answer]If Pedro has three times more gumballs than Alicia, he has 3 * 20 gumballs = 60 gumballs more. In total, Pedro has 20 gumballs + 60 gumballs = 80 gumballs. When they put their gumballs together, the total number of gumballs in the bowl becomes 20 gumballs + 80 gumballs = 100 gumballs. Pedro takes out 40% of the gumballs which is 40 / 100 * 100 gumballs = 40 gumballs. The number of gumballs remaining is 100 gumballs - 40 gumballs = 60 gumballs. The answer is 60.
Q: Autumn was constantly misplacing her pencils. At the start of the school year, she purchased a pack of 20 pencils. In the first month of school, she misplaced 7 pencils, broke 3 pencils and had to throw them away, she found 4, and bought 2. How many pencils did Autumn have left?
A: Autumn misplaced 7 and broke 3, so that lost her 7 + 3 = 10 pencils. Autumn found 4 pencils and bought 2, so she gained 4 + 2 = 6 pencils. She started with 20 pencils, lost 10 and gained 6 so she had 20 - 10 + 6 = 16 pencils left. The answer is 16.
Question: Caroline has 40 pairs of socks. She loses 4 pairs of socks at the laundromat. Of the remaining pairs of socks, she donates two-thirds to the thrift store. Then she purchases 10 new pairs of socks, and she receives 3 new pairs of socks as a gift from her dad. How many pairs of socks does Caroline have in total?
Answer:
After losing some socks, Caroline has 40 - 4 = 36 pairs of socks. Caroline donates 36 * (2 / 3) = 24 pairs of socks to the thrift store. After donating some socks, Caroline has 36 - 24 = 12 pairs of socks remaining. After getting new socks, Caroline has 12 + 10 + 3 = 25 pairs of socks. The answer is 25.