Question: Kylie and Kayla pick apples together and take home 340 apples total. If Kayla picked 10 more than 4 times the amount of apples that Kylie picked, how many apples did Kayla pick?
Answer: Let x be the number of apples Kylie picked. Kayla picked 10 + 4x apples. 340 = x + (10 + 4x). 340 = 5x + 10. 330 = 5x. x = 66 apples. Kayla picked 10 + 4(66) = 274 apples. The answer is 274.
[Question]When you take Hiram's age and then add 12, you get 4 less than twice Allyson's age. If Hiram is 40 years old, how old is Allyson?
[Answer]If Hiram's age is 40, when you add 12, his age becomes 40 + 12 = 52. If you add 4 from Hiram's age after adding twelve to his age, you get 52 + 4 = 56, which is twice Allyson's age. Allyson's age is 56 / 2 = 28 years. The answer is 28.
Q: Brenda volunteered to make 3 trays of banana pudding for the family reunion. Each tray of banana pudding would need 80 wafer cookies. A box of wafer cookies only had 60 cookies per box. Each box costs $3.50. How much will it cost her to buy just enough boxes for 3 trays of banana pudding?
A: Every tray needs 80 cookies and she's making 3 trays so 8 * 3 = 240. Every box of cookies has 60 cookies. She needs 240 cookies so 240 / 60 = 4 boxes. The boxes cost $3.50 each and she needs 4 boxes so 3.50 * 4 = $14.00. The answer is 14.
Question: Junior has 16 rabbits. On Monday, he bought 6 toys for his rabbits. On Wednesday, he bought twice as many toys as he did Monday. On Friday, he bought four times as many toys as he did on Monday, and on the next day he bought half as many toys as he did on Wednesday. If he split all the toys evenly between the rabbits, how many toys would each rabbit have?
Answer: On Wednesday, Junior bought 6 * 2 = 12 toys. On Friday, Junior bought 6 * 4 = 24 toys. On Saturday he bought 12 / 2 = 6 toys. In total, Junior bought 6 + 12 + 24 + 6 = 48 toys. Each rabbit would have 48 / 16 = 3 toys. The answer is 3.
[Question]Trace has five shopping bags that weigh the same amount as Gordon’s two shopping bags. One of Gordon’s shopping bags weighs three pounds and the other weighs seven. Trace’s shopping bags all weigh the same amount. How many pounds does one of Trace’s bags weigh?
[Answer]Gordon’s bags weigh 3 + 7 = 10 pounds. Trace’s five bags all weigh the same amount, so each bag weighs 10 / 5 = 2 pounds. The answer is 2.
[Question]Nissa is calculating a jail sentence for a man who was convicted of burglary. The base sentence is 1 year of jail for every $5,000 of goods stolen. The burglar is going to have his sentence length increased by 25% because this is his third offense, plus 2 additional years for resisting arrest. How many years total is the burglar's sentence if he stole $40,000 worth of goods?
[Answer]
First find how many years the base sentence will be: $40,000 / 1 year / $5,000 = 8 years. Then find how long the increase for the third offense is: 8 years * 25% = 2 years. Then add the third - offense increase and the sentence for resisting arrest to the base sentence: 8 years + 2 years + 2 years = 12 years. The answer is 12.