Question: Connie is trying to remember when her grandmother was born. She knows her grandmother's older brother was born in 1932, her older sister was born in 1936, and the gap between her grandmother and her sister is twice the gap between the older brother and the older sister. What year was Connie's grandma born?
Answer: First find the age gap between the older brother and sister by subtracting the earlier birth year from the later: 1936 - 1932 = 4 years. Then double the age gap to find how many years passed between the sister's birth and the grandmother's: 4 years * 2 = 8 years. Then add 8 years to the older sister's birth year to find the grandmother's birth year: 1936 + 8 = 1944. The answer is 1944.
[Question]John takes a 10-minute shower every other day for 4 weeks. If his shower uses 2 gallons of water per minute. How much water does he use in those 4 weeks?
[Answer]There are 4 * 7 = 28 days in those 4 weeks. That means he takes 28 / 2 = 14 showers. So he takes a total of 14 * 10 = 140 minutes of showers. So he uses 2 * 140 = 280 gallons of water. The answer is 280.
Q: Yasna has two books. One book is 180 pages long, and the other book is 100 pages long. If Yasna wants to finish both of the books in two weeks, how many pages will Yasna need to read every day, if she reads an equal number of pages each day?
A: The total number of pages is 180 + 100 = 280 pages. The number of pages Yasna needs to read every day for two weeks is 280 / 14 = 20 pages. The answer is 20.
Question: After Martha went grocery shopping she had 4 bottles of juice in the refrigerator and 4 bottles in the pantry. During the week Martha bought 5 more bottles of juice. If Martha and her family drank 3 bottles of juice during the week, how many bottles are left?
Answer: Martha had 4 bottles of juice in the pantry + 4 bottles in the refrigerator = 8 bottles of juice. After Martha went shopping she added 5 bottles of juice to the + 8 bottles she already had = 13 bottles of juice. Martha and her family drank 3 bottles of juice during the week from the 13 they had, 13 - 3 = 10 bottles left. The answer is 10.
[Question]A garden produced 237 potatoes, 60 fewer cucumbers and twice as many peppers than the cucumbers. How many vegetables did the garden produce?
[Answer]The garden produced 237 potatoes - 60 = 177 cucumbers. The garden produced 177 cucumbers * 2 peppers / cucumber = 354 peppers. The garden produced 237 potatoes + 177 cucumbers + 354 peppers = 768 vegetables. The answer is 768.
[Question]Mrs. Brynlee reduced the prices of items in her store by 20% after the local government gave small businesses in her county a subsidy. If the price of a shirt in the store was $60 and that of the leather jacket was $90, calculate the amount of money Teagan will pay for buying 5 shirts and 10 leather jackets at the reduced prices.
[Answer]
If the price of a shirt in the store was $60, its price was reduced by 20 / 100 * $60 = $12. The price of a shirt was reduced to $60 - $12 = $48. Teagan will pay $48 * 5 = $240 for buying 5 shirts. If the initial price of the leather jacket was $90, the price reduced by 20 / 100 * $90 = $18. The final leather jacket after Mrs. Brynlee reduced the price by 20% is $90 - $18 = $72. Teagan will pay $72 * 10 = $720 for buying 10 leather jackets. The amount of money Teagan paid to Mrs. Brynlee for the shirts and the leather jackets is $720 + $240 = $960. The answer is 960.