[Question]Sherry is making banana bread for a bake sale. She wants to make 99 loaves. Her recipe makes enough batter for 3 loaves. The recipe calls for 1 banana. How many bananas does Sherry need?
[Answer]Sherry needs to make 33 batches of banana bread to make enough loaves because 99 / 3 = 33. Therefore, Sherry needs 33 bananas because there is 1 banana in each batch. The answer is 33.
Q: Every room in a building has at least two windows and a maximum of 4 windows. There are 122 windows total. If 5 rooms have 4 windows and 8 rooms have 3 windows, how many rooms in the building have 2 windows?
A: Since 5 rooms have 4 windows, this accounts for 20 windows because 4 * 5 = 20 windows. Since 8 rooms have 3 windows, this accounts for 24 windows because 8 * 3 = 24 windows. There are 78 windows left over because 122 - 20 - 24 = 78. Therefore, there are 39 rooms with 2 windows because 78 / 2 = 39. The answer is 39.
Question: Ryan is looking for people to crowdfund his new business idea. If the average person funds $10 to a project they're interested in, how many people will Ryan have to recruit to fund a $1,000 business if he has $200 already?
Answer: First, we need to determine how much money Ryan needs to hit his goal which we find by subtracting his available cash from his target, performing 1000 - 200 = 800 dollars needed. Since the average person contributes $10 when crowdfunding, this means he needs to find 800 / 10 = 80 people to fund his business well enough for him to hit his goal. The answer is 80.
[Question]Reagan's school has a fish tank with a total of 280 fish of two types, koi fish and goldfish. Over the next 3 weeks, the school added 2 koi fish and 5 goldfish per day. If the tank had 200 goldfish at the end of the three weeks, what's the total number of koi fish in the tank after the three weeks?
[Answer]The total number of days in 3 weeks is 3 * 7 = 21 days. If 2 koi fish are added every day, the total after 21 days is 21 * 2 = 42 koi fish. if 5 goldfish are added every day, the total after 21 days is 5 * 21 = 105 goldfish. The total number of fish in the tank after 3 weeks is 280 + 42 + 105 = 427 fish. If there were a total of 200 goldfish in the tank after 3 weeks, then the number of koi in the tank is 427 - 200 = 227 koi fish. The answer is 227.
Q: A teacher purchased some school supplies that cost $13 and $24. She had the remaining $6 budget from last year and for this year, she was given a $50 budget. How much money remains in her budget after purchasing the school supplies?
A: The teacher's total budget was $6 + $50 = $56. Her total school supplies expenses was $13 + $24 = $37. Hence, the teacher has $56 - $37 = $19 remaining budget. The answer is 19.
Question: Jenny's property tax rate is 2%. Her house is currently worth $400,000. The city is about to build a new high-speed rail project nearby, which will increase her house's value by 25%. Jenny can only afford to spend $15,000/year on property tax. How many dollars worth of improvements can she make to her house before her property tax bill gets too high?
Answer:
First find how much the rail project will increase the house value by multiplying the initial value by 25%: $400,000 * .25 = $100,000. Then add that amount to the initial value to find the new value: $100,000 + $400,000 = $500,000. Then divide the maximum amount of property tax Jenny can afford to pay by the property tax rate to find the maximum value her house can have: $15,000 / .02 = $750,000. Now subtract the house's value after the rail project from the maximum value to find how much value the improvements can have: $750,000 - $500,000 = $250,000. The answer is 250000.