Q: Michael is baking a cake and needs 6 cups of flour. The only measuring cup he has is the 1/4 cup. He has an 8 cup bag of flour and realizes it would be faster to measure the flour he doesn't need, take it out of the bag, and then dump the rest of the bag into the bowl. How many scoops should he remove?
A: He needs to remove 2 cups of flour because 8 minus 6 equals 2. He needs to use 8 scoops because 2 divided by .25 equals 8. The answer is 8.
Question: A club is going to get additional members so that they will have 5 more than twice their current number of their members. If the club has 10 members now, how many additional members do they need?
Answer: Twice the current number of members now is 10 * 2 = 20 members. So, the club wants to have 20 + 5 = 25 members. Therefore, they need to get 25 - 10 = 15 members. The answer is 15.
[Question]In the garden, the gecko eats 12 bugs. The lizard eats half as many bugs as the gecko. The frog eats 3 times as many bugs as the lizard. The toad eats 50% more bugs than the frog. How many bugs are eaten in total by all of them?
[Answer]Lizard eats 12 / 2 = 6 bugs. Frog eats 6 x 3 = 18 bugs. Toad eats 18 x 1.50 = 27 bugs. The lizard, frog and toad eat 6 + 18 + 27 = 51 bugs. Adding what the gecko eats, a total of 12 + 51 = 63 bugs are eaten. The answer is 63.
Q: Angela slept 6.5 hours every night in December. She decided she should get more sleep and began sleeping 8.5 hours a night in January. How much more sleep did Angela get in January?
A: Angela slept 8.5 – 6.5 = 2 more hours each night in January. There are 31 days in December and January, so Angela 2 x 31 = 62 more hours sleep. The answer is 62.
Question: TreQuan is throwing rocks in the river and he notices that the bigger the rock, the wider the splash. Pebbles make a splash that is a 1/4 meter wide. Rocks make a splash that is 1/2 a meter wide, and boulders create a splash that is 2 meters wide. If he tosses 6 pebbles, 3 rocks, and 2 boulders, what is the total width of the splashes he makes?
Answer: The pebble's total splash width is 1.5 meters because 6 times 1 / 4 equals 1.5. The rock's total splash width is 1.5 meters because 3 times 1 / 2 equals 1.5. The boulder's total splash width is 4 because 2 times 2 equals four. The total splash width for all the rocks is 7 because 1.5 plus 1.5 plus 4 equals 7. The answer is 7.
Q: Paul lives in a 5th story apartment. He makes 3 trips out from and back to his apartment throughout the day each day of a week. How many feet does he travel vertically in total over the week if each story is 10 feet tall?
A:
Since Paul makes 3 trips per day, and each trip involves going both down and up, this means he travels the full vertical distance of his apartment complex 3 * 2 = 6 times a day. Since there are 7 days in a week, this means he makes this trip 6 * 7 = 42 times a week. Since each story is 10 feet tall, that means with 5 stories he travels 5 * 10 = 50 feet each trip. Since he made 42 trips of 50 feet each, this means he traveled 50 * 42 = 2100 feet in a week. The answer is 2100.