[Question]John buys a pair of earbuds that cost $200. If tax was 15%, how much did he pay after tax?
[Answer]The tax was 200 * .15 = $30. So he paid 200 + 30 = $230. The answer is 230.
Q: Aubrey is planting tomatoes and cucumbers in her garden. For each row of tomato plants, she is planting 2 rows of cucumbers. She has enough room for 15 rows of plants in total. There is enough space for 8 tomato plants in each row. If each plant produces 3 tomatoes, how many tomatoes will she have in total?
A: Since one out of every 3 rows will contain tomato plants, there will be 15 / 3 = 5 rows of tomato plants. This gives her enough room to plant 5 rows * 8 plants / row = 40 tomato plants. The plants will produce a total of 40 * 3 = 120 tomatoes. The answer is 120.
Question: James paves a new parking lot. It is 400 feet by 500 feet. Only 80% of that is useable for parking. It takes 10 square feet to park a car. How many cars can be parked?
Answer: The parking lot is 400 * 500 = 200,000. There are 200,000 * .8 = 160,000 square feet of parking space. That means he can park 16,0000 / 10 = 16000 cars. The answer is 16000.
[Question]John manages to run 15 mph for his whole 5-mile race. The next fastest guy ran the race in 23 minutes. How many minutes did he win the race by?
[Answer]He runs the race in 5 / 15 = 1 / 3 of an hour. So he runs the race in 60 / 3 = 20 minutes. That means he beat the next fastest guy by 23 - 20 = 3 minutes. The answer is 3.
Q: Kris is blowing u balloons for her sister’s party. She has 30 minutes to blow up as many balloons as possible and decides to enlist her brother’s help to increase the number of balloons. Kris can blow up a total of 2 balloon per minute, and her brother works twice as fast. After 15 minutes, her brother doubles his speed and works at this new speed for the remaining 15 minutes. After the 30 minutes, how many balloons, in total, did Kris and her brother blow up?
A: Throughout the 30 minutes, Kris blows up 2 balloons per minute * 30 minutes = 60 balloons. Her brother works at double Kris' speed in the first 15 minutes so he works at 2 balloons per minute * 2 = 4 balloons per minute. So in the first 15 minutes, he blows up 4 balloons per minute * 15 minutes = 60 balloons. In the second 15 minutes, he is working at double the rate he did previously, so he blows up 4 balloons per minute * 2 = 8 balloons per minute. In the second 15 minutes, Kris’ brother therefore blows up 8 balloons per minute * 15 minutes = 120 balloons. Throughout the 30 minutes, he has blown up a total of 60 + 120 = 180 balloons. Kris and her brother therefore blew up a total of 60 balloons from Kris + 180 balloons from Kris’ brother = 240 balloons. The answer is 240.
Question: Teresa orders 2 fancy ham and cheese sandwiches for $7.75 each at a local shop. While there, she decides to pick up some salami for $4.00, more brie which is three times the price of the salami, a 1/4 pound of olives that are $10.00 per pound, 1/2 pound of feta cheese that’s $8.00 a pound and another loaf of french bread that is $2.00. How much does she spend at the local shop?
Answer:
She orders 2 sandwiches that are $7.75 so they cost 2 * $7.75 = $15.50. The brie is three times more expensive than the $4.00 salami so the brie costs 3 * $4 = $12.00. She buys 1 / 4 pound of the olives that costs $10.00 a pound so they cost .25 * $10 = $2.50. She buys 1 / 2 pound of feta that costs $8.00 a pound so it costs .5 * $8 = $4.00. The salami is $4.00, the brie is $12.00, olives are $2.50 and the feta is $4.00 and the sandwiches are $15.50 for a total of $4 + $12 + $2.50 + $4 + $15.50 = $38.00. Adding the french bread gives $38.00 + $2.00 = $40. The answer is 40.