[Question]If eight liters is 20% the capacity of a container filled with water, calculate the total capacity of 40 such containers filled with water.
[Answer]If eight liters is 20% the capacity of a container filled with water, when the container is full, which is 100%, the container will contain 100% / 20% * 8 liters = 40 liters. The total capacity of 40 such containers filled with water is 40 * 40 = 1600 liters. The answer is 1600.
Q: Twelve coworkers go out for lunch together and order three pizzas. Each pizza is cut into eight slices. If each person gets the same number of slices, how many slices will each person get?
A: The total number of slices is 3 × 8 = 24. Every one of the colleagues gets 24 / 12 = 2 slices per person. The answer is 2.
Question: The big bottles of mango juice hold 30 ounces and cost 2700 pesetas each. The small bottles hold 6 ounces and cost 600 pesetas each. How many pesetas would be saved by buying a big bottle instead of smaller bottles for the same volume of juice?
Answer: The equivalent is 30 / 6 = 5 small bottles. Five small bottles at 600 pesetas each is 5 * 600 = 3000 pesetas. The savings is 3000 - 2700 = 300. The answer is 300.
[Question]Enid and Aaron are knitting clothes for their store. Aaron makes 10 scarves and 5 sweaters, and Enid makes 8 sweaters. If a scarf uses 3 balls of wool and a sweater uses 4 balls of wool, how many balls of wool did Enid and Aaron use in total?
[Answer]Aaron used 10 scarves * 3 balls of wool = 30 balls of wool to make his scarves. He also used 5 sweaters * 4 balls of wool = 20 balls of wool to make his sweaters. Enid used 8 sweaters * 4 balls of wool = 32 balls of wool to make her sweaters. So in total, Aaron used 30 + 20 + 32 = 82 balls of wool. The answer is 82.
Q: A mechanic charges $60 an hour to repair a car. He works 8 hours a day for 14 days on one car. The mechanic also used $2500 in parts. How much did the car's owner have to pay?
A: The mechanic worked 8 * 14 = 112 hours. So the labor cost 60 * 112 = $6720. That means the total cost was 6720 + 2500 = $9220. The answer is 9220.
Question: A candy store uses food colouring in various candies. Each lollipop uses 5ml of food colouring, and each hard candy also needs food colouring. In one day, the candy store makes 100 lollipops and 5 hard candies. They do not use food colouring in anything else. The store has used 600ml of food colouring by the end of the day. How much food colouring, in millilitres, does each hard candy need?
Answer:
In total, the lollipops needed 5ml of food colouring * 100 lollipops = 500ml of food colouring. This means that the hard candies needed 600ml total food colouring – 500ml food colouring for lollipops = 100ml of food colouring. So each hard candy needed 100ml of food colouring / 5 hard candies = 20 ml of food colouring. The answer is 20.