Question: Aaron is gathering can lids to take to the recycling center. He uses 3 equal-sized boxes of canned tomatoes and adds the lids he gets to the 14 can lids he already has. He is now taking 53 can lids to the recycling center. How many cans lids did he get from each box?
Answer: Calculating the difference between the can lids Aaron has now and the amount that he had initially shows there were 53 – 14 = 39 can lids in the boxes of canned tomatoes. As the boxes are the same size, splitting these can lids equally shows that there were 39 / 3 = 13 can lids in each box. The answer is 13.
[Question]Hannah collects mugs. She already has 40 different mugs in 4 different colors. She has three times more blue mugs than red mugs and 12 yellow mugs. Considering that she has only half as many red mugs as yellow mugs, how many mugs of another color than mentioned does she have?
[Answer]Hannah has half as many red mugs as yellow mugs, which means she has 12 * 0.5 = 6 red mugs. Hannas has three times more blue mugs than red ones, which means 3 * 6 = 18 blue mugs. So there are 40 - 18 - 6 - 12 = 4 mugs in a different color than mentioned. The answer is 4.
Q: Aunt May milks her cows twice a day. This morning she got 365 gallons of milk. This evening she got 380 gallons. She sold 612 gallons to the local ice cream factory. She had 15 gallons left over from yesterday. How many gallons of milk does she have left?
A: Today Aunt May's cows gave her 365 gallons + 380 = 745 gallons of milk. She had 745 gallons - 612 gallons sold to the ice cream factory = 133 gallons of milk left. Combined with the leftover from yesterday, Aunt May has 133 gallons + 15 gallons = 148 gallons of milk. The answer is 148.
Question: Calvin and Phoebe each have 8 more pastries than Frank but only five less than Grace. If Grace has 30 pastries, calculate the total number of pastries that the four have?
Answer: If Grace has 30 pastries, then both Phoebe and Calvin each have 30 - 5 = 25 pastries. The total number of pastries that Phoebe and Calvin have is 25 + 25 = 50. Together, Phoebe, Calvin, and Grace have 50 + 30 = 80 pastries. Since Calvin and Phoebe each have 8 more pastries than Frank, then Frank has 25 - 8 = 17 pastries. Altogether, the four have 17 + 80 = 97 pastries. The answer is 97.
[Question]Lilly and Fiona are cleaning a room. Between them, it takes 8 hours to clean the room. A quarter of the time spent cleaning was by Lilly and Fiona was responsible for the rest of the cleaning. How long, in minutes, was Fiona cleaning?
[Answer]Lilly cleaned for 8 hours / 4 = 2 hours. This means that Fiona was cleaning for 8 hours total cleaning – 2 hours Lilly’s cleaning = 6 hours. So in minutes, Fiona was cleaning for 6 hours * 60 minutes in an hour = 360 minutes. The answer is 360.
[Question]At school today, Charlize was 20 minutes late. Four of her classmates were each ten minutes late than she was. What's the total time for which the five students were late?
[Answer]
If Charlize was 20 minutes late, each of her friends was 20 + 10 = 30 minutes late. The total time for which Charlize's friends were late was 4 * 30 = 120 minutes. Together with Charlize, the three friends were 120 + 20 = 140 minutes late. The answer is 140.