Q: James goes to pet smart to adopt a puppy. The adoption fee is $200 and his friend agrees to pay 25% of that. How much does James have to pay?
A: His friend agrees to pay 200 * .25 = $50. So he needs to pay 200 - 50 = $150. The answer is 150.
Question: A store is having an anniversary sale. A tub of ice cream costs $2 less than its original price of $12 and the juice is sold at $2 for 5 cans. How much will you pay if you buy two tubs of ice cream and 10 cans of juice?
Answer: The price of a tub of ice cream is now $12 - $2 = $10. So the two tubs of ice cream amount to $10 x 2 = $20. There are 10 / 5 = 2 sets of 5 cans of juice. Thus, you will pay $2 x 2 = $4 for the 10 cans of juice. Therefore, you will pay a total of $20 + $4 = $24. The answer is 24.
[Question]There are 35 books on the cart. There are five fiction books, 4 more non-fiction books than fiction books, 2 times as many autobiographies as fiction books, and the rest picture books. How many books were picture books?
[Answer]There are 5 + 4 = 9 non - fiction books on the cart. There are 2 * 5 = 10 autobiographies on the cart. There are 5 + 9 + 10 = 24 fiction, non - fiction, and autobiography books on the cart. There are 35 - 24 = 11 picture books on the cart. The answer is 11.
Q: A mother planted a 16-inch tree on her son's first birthday. On the day the tree was planted, the boy was 24 inches tall. If the tree grows twice as fast as the boy does, how tall will the tree be by the time the boy is 36 inches tall?
A: The boy grew 36 - 24 = 12 inches since the tree was planted. Since the tree grows twice as fast as the boy, it will have grown 12 * 2 = 24 inches during this time period. Thus, the final height of the tree is 16 + 24 = 40 inches. The answer is 40.
Question: Carol gets a fixed $20 allowance each week. She can also earn $1.5 more dollars each week if she does extra chores. At the end of 10 weeks, she has 425 dollars. How many extra chores did she average each week?
Answer: She earned $42.5 on average per week because 425 / 10 = 42.5. She earned $22.5 each week from extra chores because 42.5 - 20 = 22.5. She did 15 extra chores a week because 22.5 / 1.5 = 15. The answer is 15.
Q: James decides to use tannerite to blow things up to reveal his baby's gender. The explosion ignites both his neighbors' houses and attracts a police officer, who arrests James on two count of arson, one count of manufacturing explosives, and one count of domestic terrorism. If the arson counts each carry a 6-year sentence, the explosives sentence is twice as long as the total arson sentence, and the domestic terrorism charge's sentence is 20 years, how long might James spend in jail?
A:
First find the total sentence length for the arson: 6 years / count * 2 counts = 12 years. Then find the total sentence length for the explosives: 12 years * 2 = 24 years. Then add each sentence to find the total sentence length: 12 years + 24 years + 20 years = 56 years. The answer is 56.