[Question]Grant spends $200.00 a year to have the newspaper delivered daily to his house. Juanita buys the newspaper daily. Monday through Saturday, she spends $0.50 and on Sunday she spends $2.00. How much more money does Juanita spend buying the newspaper yearly than Grant?
[Answer]Monday through Saturday Juanita buys the paper for $0.50 so that's 6 * $0.50 = $3.00. She spends $2.00 for Sunday and $3.00 for the other 6 days so she spends $2 + $3 = $5.00 for the newspaper weekly. Over 52 weeks she spends 52 * $5 = $260.00. Juanita spends $260.00 on the newspaper for the year and Grants spends $200.00 a year so Juanita spends $260 - $200 = $60.00 more. The answer is 60.
Q: James is trying to decide which trail is faster to hike. One trail is 20 miles and mostly downhill, so James can cover it at 5 miles per hour. The other trail is 12 miles, but it's mostly uphill, so James will only be able to cover 3 miles per hour and will have to take an hour break halfway through. How many hours faster is the fastest hike?
A: First find how long the first trail takes to hike: 20 miles / 5 miles / hour = 4 hours. Then find how long James spends hiking the second trail: 12 miles / 3 miles / hour = 4 hours. Then add the 1 hour break James has to take on the second trail: 4 hours + 1 hour = 5 hours. Then subtract the time for the first trail from the time for the second trail to find the difference: 5 hours - 4 hours = 1 hour. The answer is 1.
Question: Briar is attending a one-week community empowerment event and has to take a cab ride to the event and back home every day. A cab ride costs $2.5 per mile. If the event is 200 miles away from Briar's home, calculate the total amount of money the cab rides cost would be at the end of the event?
Answer: If a cab ride costs $2.5 per mile, and Briar has to go to an event 200 miles away, he will spend 200 * $2.5 = $500 one way to the trip. Since the round trip is also 200 miles and Briar is charged $500, the total amount he spends in a day to go to the event and back is $500 + $500 = $1000. The event is one week, meaning Briar will have to spend $1000 * 7 = $7000 on the cab rides. The answer is 7000.
[Question]In a car dealership with 600 cars, 60% of the cars are hybrids, and 40% of the hybrids contain only one headlight. How many of the hybrids have full headlights?
[Answer]In the car dealership with 600 cars, 60% of the cars are hybrids, meaning there are 60 / 100 * 600 = 360 hybrid cars. Out of the 360 hybrid cars, 40% contain only one headlight. a total of 40 / 100 * 360 = 144 cars. The total number of hybrid cars with full headlights is 360 - 144 = 216. The answer is 216.
Q: Carla adds a can of chilis, two cans of beans, and 50% more tomatoes than beans to a normal batch of chili. If she makes a quadruple batch, how many cans of food does she need?
A: First find the number of cans of tomatoes in a normal batch of chili: 2 cans * 150% = 3 cans. Then add the number of cans of each type of food to find the total number of cans per batch: 3 cans + 2 cans + 1 can = 6 cans. Then multiply the number of cans per batch by the number of batches to find the total number of cans: 6 cans / batch * 4 batches = 24 cans. The answer is 24.
Question: A rancher has 340 head of cattle. He was about to sell them all for $204,000 when 172 of them fell sick and died. Because of the sickness, his customers lost confidence in his cattle, forcing him to lower his price by $150 per head. How much money would the devastated farmer lose if he sold the remaining cattle at the lowered price compared to the amount he would have made by selling them at the original price?
Answer:
The rancher would have sold his cattle for $204,000 / 340 = $600 per head. He was left with a remainder of 340 - 172 = 168 head of cattle. The lowered price is $600 - $150 = $450 per head. He would make $450 x 168 = $75,600 at the lowered price. He could have made $600 x 168 = $100,800 at the original price. He would lose $100,800 - $75,600 = $25,200. The answer is 25200.