[Question]Audrey's key lime pie calls for 1/4 cup of key lime juice but she likes to double this amount to make it extra tart. Each key lime yields 1 tablespoon of juice. There are 16 tablespoons in 1 cup. How many key limes does Audrey need?
[Answer]Her recipe calls for 1 / 4 cup of juice but she wants to double that so she needs 1 / 4 + 1 / 4 = 1 / 2 cup of lime juice. 16 tablespoons are in 1 cup and she only needs 1 / 2 cup so she needs 16 * .5 = 8 tablespoons of juice. 1 key lime yields 1 tablespoon of juice and she needs 8 tablespoons so she needs 1 * 8 = 8 key limes. The answer is 8.
Q: Ann is cutting fabric to make curtains. She cuts a 4 foot by 6 foot rectangle for the living room, and a 2 foot by 4 foot rectangle for the bedroom. If the bolt of fabric is 16 feet by 12 feet, how much fabric is left in square feet?
A: First figure out how many square feet the original bolt of fabric was: 16 feet * 12 feet = 192 square feet. Then figure out how much fabric Ann took for the living room curtains: 4 feet * 6 feet = 24 square feet. Then figure out how much fabric Ann took for the bathroom curtains: 2 feet * 4 feet = 8 square feet. Finally, subtract the square footage of both sets of curtains from the total square footage: 192 - 24 - 8 = 160 square feet. The answer is 160.
Question: Missy has an obedient dog and a stubborn dog. She has to yell at the stubborn dog four times for every one time she yells at the obedient dog. If she yells at the obedient dog 12 times, how many times does she yell at both dogs combined?
Answer: First find the number of times Missy yells at the stubborn dog: 4 * 12 times = 48 times. Then add the number of times she yells at the obedient dog to find the total number of times she yells: 48 times + 12 times = 60 times. The answer is 60.
[Question]John used to buy 4 coffees a day for $2 each. They raised the price by 50% so he cut the number of coffees he drinks in half. How much money does he save per day compared to what he used to spend?
[Answer]He now buys 4 / 2 = 2 coffees. The new price is 2 * .5 = $1 more than the old price. So he now pays 2 + 1 = $3 per coffee. So he spends 3 * 2 = $6. He used to spend 4 * 2 = $8. So he saves 8 - 6 = $2 per day. The answer is 2.
Q: 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?
A: 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.
Question: Oliver collects trading cards. He has twice as many Monster Club cards as Alien Baseball cards. His Battle Gremlins card collection is the largest at 48 cards, three times the size of his Alien Baseball card collection. How many Monster Club cards does Oliver have?
Answer:
Oliver’s Alien Baseball card collection has 48 / 3 = 16 cards. Oliver has twice as many Monster Club cards, so he has 16 * 2 = 32 Monster Club cards. The answer is 32.