[Question]Trevor is a comic book illustrator. In the past three months, he has drawn 220 pages of the comic. The comic he illustrates releases a new issue once a month. The first and second months’ issues were the same number of pages, but the third month’s issue was four pages longer than either of the others. How many pages was the first issue of the comic?
[Answer]Let P be the number of pages of the first issue of the comic. The second issue is the same number of pages, so the first and second issues are P + P = 2P pages. The third issue is 4 pages longer, so it is P + 4 pages. All three issues are 2P + P + 4 = 3P + 4 = 220 pages long. Thus, 3P = 220 - 4 = 216 pages. Therefore, the first issue of the comic was P = 216 / 3 = 72 pages. The answer is 72.
Q: Of 96 oranges, half were ripe. If 1/4 of the ripe oranges were eaten and 1/8 of the unripe oranges were eaten, how many were left eaten in total?
A: There were 96 / 2 = 48 ripe oranges. 48 / 4 = 12 ripe oranges were eaten. 48 / 8 = 6 unripe oranges were eaten. There were 12 + 6 = 18 oranges eaten in total. There were 96 - 18 = 78 oranges left uneaten. The answer is 78.
Question: Henry went to the beach and picked up 17 perfect shells and 52 broken shells. Out of those 52 broken shells, half of them were spiral. Out of the 17 perfect shells, 12 of them were not spiral. How many more broken spiral shells were there than perfect spiral shells?
Answer: 52 broken shells / 2 = 26 broken shells were spiral. 17 perfect shells - 12 not spiral perfect shells = 5 perfect shells were spiral. There were 26 - 5 = 21 more broken spiral shells than perfect spiral shells. The answer is 21.
[Question]Jonny climbed 1269 stairs last week. Julia climbed 7 less than one-third of that amount. How many stairs did Julia and Jonny climb together?
[Answer]Julia climbed 1269 / 3 - 7 = 416 stairs. Total stairs climbed = 1269 + 416 = 1685 stairs. Together Jonny and Julia climbed 1685 stairs. The answer is 1685.
Q: Steve has 2 boxes of pencils with 12 pencils in each box. He gave Matt 3 more pencils than he gave to Lauren. If Steve gave 6 pencils to Lauren, how many pencils does he have left?
A: Steve started with 2 * 12 = 24 pencils. He gave Matt 6 + 3 = 9 pencils. After giving away the pencils, Steve will have 24 – 9 – 6 = 9 pencils left. The answer is 9.
Question: Raine's house is just a walking distance from her school. It takes her 150 steps to walk to the school. How many steps does she take walking to and from school in five days?
Answer:
Raine takes 150 x 2 = 300 steps walking to and from school each day. Thus, it takes her 300 x 5 = 1500 steps in five days. The answer is 1500.