[Question]Annie plants 3 pots of basil, 9 pots of rosemary, and 6 pots of thyme. Each basil plant has 4 leaves, each rosemary plant has 18 leaves, and each thyme plant has 30 leaves. How many leaves are there total?
[Answer]First find the total number of basil leaves: 3 pots * 4 leaves / pot = 12 leaves. Then find the total number of rosemary leaves: 9 pots * 18 leaves / pot = 162 leaves. Then find the total number of thyme leaves: 6 pots * 30 leaves / pot = 180 leaves. Then add the number of each type of leaf to find the total number of leaves: 12 leaves + 162 leaves + 180 leaves = 354 leaves. The answer is 354.
Q: Mr. Smith has incurred a 2% finance charge because he was not able to pay on time for his balance worth $150. If he plans to settle his balance today, how much will Mr. Smith pay?
A: The finance charge amounts to $150 x 2 / 100 = $3. Thus, Mr. Smith will pay a total of $150 + $3 = $153. The answer is 153.
Question: Reynald is the head of the varsity department, and he bought 145 balls. Twenty were soccer balls. There were five more basketballs than the soccer balls. Twice the number of soccer balls were tennis balls. There were ten more baseballs than the soccer balls, and the rest were volleyballs. How many were volleyballs?
Answer: There were 20 + 5 = 25 basketballs. There were 2 x 20 = 40 tennis balls. And, there were 20 + 10 = 30 baseballs. So, there were 20 + 25 + 40 + 30 = 115 soccer balls, basketballs, tennis balls and baseball altogether.                      Therefore, Reynald bought 145 - 115 = 30 volleyballs,. The answer is 30.
[Question]Keegan is in school for 7.5 hours each day and he is taking 7 classes. He has history and chemistry classes for a combined total of 1.5 hours. How many minutes does Keegan spend in one of his other classes on average?
[Answer]He has 7 - 2 = 5 other classes. 7.5 hours - 1.5 hours = 6 hours. 6 hours = 360 minutes. 360 / 5 = 72 minutes. Keegan spends 72 minutes in one of his other classes. The answer is 72.
Q: Ben starts each day with $50, spends $15 every day and saves the rest. After a few days, his mom doubled his total savings and his dad gave him an additional $10. If he now has $500, How many days have elapsed?
A: Let the number of days be x. He saves $50 - $15 = $35 each day. After x days he had saved $35 * x = $35x. His mom doubled his savings to give $35x * 2 = $70x. His dad added $10 to give $70x + $10 = $500. Subtracting 10 from both sides of the equation formed gives $70x = 490. Dividing both sides by $70 give x = 7 days. The answer is 7.
Question: Every Monday to Friday morning, Alice walks 10 miles through a large grass field to get to school. To avoid the hot afternoon sun on her way home, she walks 12 miles through a forest. When she gets home on Friday, how many miles will she have walked that week?
Answer:
On Monday the total number of miles Alice walks to and from school is 10 + 12 = 22 miles. For the other 4 days, from Tuesday to Friday, she walks an additional 4 * 22 = 88 miles. The total number of miles she will have walked by Friday 22 + 88 = 110 miles. The answer is 110.