Question: Queenie earns $150 a day as a part-time clerk. She earns an additional $5 per hour as overtime pay. How much will Queenie receive for working 5 days with 4 hours overtime?
Answer: Queenie will earn $150 x 5 = $750 for working 5 days. She will receive an additional $5 x 4 = $20 for overtime pay. Hence, Queenie will receive a total of $750 + $20 = $770. The answer is 770.
[Question]Moore's family compared mobile phone plans to get the best deal. At T-Mobile, the family plan costs $50 per month for the first two lines and $16 for each additional line. At M-Mobile, the family plan costs $45 for the first two lines and $14 for each additional line. Moore's family needs to purchase 5 cell phone lines. How much cheaper is the M-Mobile than T-Mobile?
[Answer]The three additional lines at T - Mobile cost $16 x 3 = $48. The total cost of the family plan at T - Mobile is $50 + $48 = $98. The three additional lines at M - Mobile cost $14 x 3 = $42. The total cost of the family plan at M - Mobile is$45 + $ 42 = $87. Therefore, M - Mobile is $98 - 87 = $11 cheaper than T - Mobile. The answer is 11.
Q: I caught 4 fewer fish than the number in my tank and added them to my fish tank. If the tank has 20 fish right now, how many did I add?
A: Let's say the number of fish that was in the tank before was x. If you caught 4 fewer fish than the number that was there, then you caught x - 4. After adding x - 4 fish into the tank, the tank now had 20 fish, meaning the total number of fish in the tank is x + x - 4 = 20. 2x = 20 + 4. The total number of fish that was initially in the tank is 2x = 24. Initially, there were x = 24 / 2 fish in the tank. x = 12. If you caught 4 fewer fish than the number in my tank initially, you caught 12 - 4 = 8 fish. The answer is 8.
Question: The bakery made 95 muffins. They will be packed in boxes with 5 muffins in each box. If there are only 10 available boxes, how many boxes do they still need to pack all the muffins?
Answer: A total of 10 x 5 = 50 muffins will be packed in 10 boxes. So 95 - 50 = 45 muffins still need to be packed in the boxes. Thus, 45 / 5 = 9 boxes are still needed to pack all those 45 muffins. The answer is 9.
[Question]Jake has 3 snakes. Each of them lays 2 eggs. Most of the baby snakes sell for $250 but one super rare one costs 4 times as much. How much did he get from selling the snakes?
[Answer]He has 3 * 2 = 6 baby snakes. So 6 - 1 = 5 sell for $250 each. So those snakes sell for 5 * $250 = $1250. The other snake sells for $250 * 4 = $1000. So in total, the snakes sold for $1250 + $1000 = $2250. The answer is 2250.
[Question]Trevor buys three bouquets of carnations. The first included 9 carnations, and the second included 14 carnations. If the average number of carnations in the bouquets is 12, how many carnations were in the third bouquet?
[Answer]
There are 3 bouquets. The total is the average times the number of bouquets, or 12 * 3 = 36. There are 9 + 14 = 23 accounted for. The third included 36 - 23 = 13 carnations. The answer is 13.