[Question]After shearing her 200 sheep, Azalea paid the shearer who had come to help her with the work $2000 for his job. Each of the sheared sheep produced 10 pounds of wool. If Ms. Azalea sold a pound of wool at $20, how much profit did she make from the produce of her sheep farm?
[Answer]Since there were 200 sheep, the amount of wool Azalea got after the shearing of the sheep is 200 * 10 = 2000 pounds of wool. If she sold one pound of wool at $20, the total amount of money she made from the sheep farm is 2000 * $20 = $40000. Her profit, which is $2000 less the amount of money she paid to the shearer, is $40000 - $2000 = 38000. The answer is 38000.
Q: There are 25 roses in a garden. There are 40 tulips. There are 35 daisies. What percentage of flowers are not roses?
A: There are 25 + 40 + 35 = 100 flowers total. There are 40 + 35 = 75 flowers that are not roses. Therefore, (75 / 100) * 100 = 75% of the flowers are not roses. The answer is 75.
Question: Earl started delivering newspapers on the first floor of a condominium building. He then went up 5 floors then went down 2 floors. He again went up 7 floors and found that he is 9 floors away from the top of the building. How many floors does the building have?
Answer: Earl was on the 1 + 5 = 6th floor after going up 5 floors. When he went down 2 floors, he was on the 6 - 2 = 4th floor. Since he went up 7 floors, he was then on the 4 + 7 = 11th floor. Since he is 9 floors away from the top of the building, therefore the building has 11 + 9 = 20 floors. The answer is 20.
[Question]Penelope the pig eats 20 pounds of food per day, which is 10 times more than Greta the goose eats per day. Milton the mouse eats 1/100 as much as Greta the goose eats per day, but Elmer the elephant eats 4000 times more than Milton the mouse does per day. How much more, in pounds, does Elmer the elephant eat per day than Penelope the pig?
[Answer]Greta the goose eats 20 / 10 = 2 pounds of food per day. Milton the mouse eats (1 / 100) * 2 = 1 / 50 of a pound of food per day. Elmer the elephant eats 4000 * (1 / 50) = 80 pounds of food per day. Thus, Elmer eats 80 - 20 = 60 pounds more food per day than does Penelope the pig. The answer is 60.
Q: Janet hires six employees. Four of them are warehouse workers who make $15/hour, and the other two are managers who make $20/hour. Janet has to pay 10% of her workers' salaries in FICA taxes. If everyone works 25 days a month and 8 hours a day, how much does Janet owe total for their wages and taxes for one month?
A: First figure out how many hours each worker works per month by multiplying the number of days they work by the number of hours a day they work: 25 days * 8 hours / day = 200 hours. Then calculate how much one warehouse worker makes per month by multiplying their hourly rate by the number of hours they work: 200 hours * $15 / hour = $3000. Then multiply that number by 4 to find out how much all the warehouse workers make: $3000 / worker * 4 workers = $12,000. Now multiply the hours each manager works (also 200) by their hourly wage to find out how much one manager makes per month: 200 hours * $20 / hour = $4,000. Now multiply one manager's wages by the number of managers (2) to find their total wage amount: $4,000 / manager * 2 managers = $8,000. Now add the wages for the managers and the workers to find the total cost of the wages: $8,000 + $12,000 = $20,000. Now multiply the total wage bill by 10% to find how much the FICA taxes are: $20,000 * .1 = $2,000. Now add the total wage bill to the total tax amount to find the grand total: $2,000 + $20,000 = $22,000. The answer is 22000.
Question: Tony has a terrible toothache and decides to buy some painkillers from the store. He picks up a bottle of 50 pills and takes them home. He takes 2 pills each day three times a day for the first 2 days, before cutting this amount in half for the next 3 days. On the sixth day, he takes a final 2 pills in the morning and ends up feeling better. How many pills are left in the bottle?
Answer:
Tony starts with 50 pills and takes 2 pills each 3 times a day, meaning he takes 2 * 3 = 6 pills in total. Tony repeats this process for two days in total, meaning over those two days he takes 2 * 6 = 12 pills. Tony then cuts down his pill usage in half, meaning he's now taking 6 / 2 = 3 pills a day. Since he repeats this process for three days, that means he takes 3 * 3 = 9 pills for that period. Adding in the two pills Tony took on the final day, that means he took 12 + 9 + 2 = 23 pills. Since there were 50 pills in the bottle to begin with, this means Tony has 50 - 23 = 27 pills remaining. The answer is 27.