Q: Carrie wants to take a trip to New York. She can get a 20% discount on an $850 flight with Delta Airlines. She can also save 30% off an $1100 flight with United Airlines. How much money would she save by choosing the cheapest flight?
A: The discount for the Delta flight would come to $850 * 0.20 = $170. The final price of the Delta flight would come to $850 - $170 = $680. The discount of the United flight would come to $1100 * 0.30 = $330. The final price of the United flight would come to $1100 - $330 = $770. The Delta flight would be cheaper than the United flight by $770 - $680 = $90. The answer is 90.
Question: The number of soldiers on opposite sides of a war each needs 10 pounds of food every day to continue fighting effectively. However, soldiers in the second are each given 2 pounds less food than the first side. If the first side has 4000 soldiers and the other side 500 soldiers fewer than the first side, what's the total amount of pounds of food both sides are eating altogether every day?
Answer: The first side with 4000 soldiers is eating 4000 * 10 = 40000 pounds of food every day. Since the other side has 500 soldiers fewer than the first side, there are 4000 - 500 = 3500 soldiers on the second side. Soldiers on the second side are each given 10 - 2 = 8 pounds of food. The total amount of food the second side eats is 8 * 3500 = 28000. Altogether, the two sides eat 28000 + 40000 = 68000 pounds of food every day. The answer is 68000.
[Question]Cordelia is dyeing her hair red. To get the color she wants, she first has to bleach her dark brown hair to blonde, and then she has to apply the dye. The whole process will take 9 hours. Dyeing takes twice as long as bleaching. How many hours will it take Cordelia to bleach her hair?
[Answer]Let H be the number of hours it takes Cordelia to bleach her hair. A dye treatment takes twice as long, so it takes 2H. Thus, bleaching and dying will take H + 2H = 3H = 9 hours. Therefore, it will take Cordelia H = 9 / 3 = 3 hours to bleach her hair. The answer is 3.
Q: In a stationery store, there are three kinds of pencils. A pencil with an eraser, which costs $0.8 each, a regular pencil for $0.5 each, and a short pencil for $0.4 each. This store was able to sell 200 pencils with an eraser, 40 regular pencils, and 35 short pencils. How much money did the store make from these sales?
A: For pencils with erasers, the store received a total of 200 * 0.8 = $160. For regular pencils, the store received 40 * 0.5 = $20. And for short pencils only 35 * 0.4 = $14. In total, the store made 160 + 20 + 14 = $194 from selling these pencils. The answer is 194.
Question: Jerry works five days a week as a waiter and earns a variable amount of tips every night. The past four nights, he earned $20, $60, $15, and $40. How much does he need to earn tonight if he wants to make an average of $50 in tips per night?
Answer: The total money Jerry needs to make for 5 days to get $50 per night is 5 nights * $50 / night = $250. His total earnings for the past four days is $20 + $60 + $15 + $40 = $135. So, Jerry needs to earn $250 - $135 = $115 in tips tonight. The answer is 115.
Q: There are 6 boxes of crayons that hold 8 orange crayons. There are 7 boxes of crayons that have 5 blue crayons. There is 1 box of 11 red crayons. How many crayons are there in total?
A:
6 * 8 = 48 orange crayons. 7 * 5 = 35 blue crayons. 11 red crayons. 48 + 35 + 11 = 94. There are a total of 94 crayons. The answer is 94.