Question: Candied yams fly off the shelf during the holiday season. The store buys them in bulk boxes of 25 packages. If every third shopper buys a package of candied yams, how many bulk boxes of candied yams will the store need to order for their 375 predicted holiday shoppers?
Answer: Every third shopper buys a package of candied yams, so the store will need 375 / 3 = 125 packages. At 25 packages per bulk box, the store will need 125 / 25 = 5 bulk boxes of candied yams. The answer is 5.
[Question]40 kids are running a race. 10% of them pass the finish line in less than 6 minutes. Three times that number finish in less than 8 minutes. 1/6 of the remaining kids take more than 14 minutes. How many kids take more than 14 minutes?
[Answer]First find how many kids finish in under 6 minutes: 40 kids * 10% = 4 kids. Then triple that number to find how many finish in less than 8 minutes: 4 kids * 3 = 12 kids. Then subtract those two numbers from the total number of kids to find the number of remaining kids: 40 kids - 4 kids - 12 kids = 24 kids. Then divide that number by 6 to find how many kids take more than 14 minutes: 24 kids / 6 = 4 kids. The answer is 4.
Q: Jana is 5 inches taller than Kelly, and Kelly is 3 inches shorter than Jess. If Jess is 72 inches tall, how tall is Jana?
A: Kelly is 72 - 3 = 69 inches tall. Jana is 69 + 5 = 74 inches tall. The answer is 74.
Question: The class plans to take a field trip to the zoo. The cost to rent a school bus is $100. The cost of admission is $10 per student. The teacher is allowed in for free. If the class has a budget of $350, how many students can go on the field trip?
Answer: There is $350 - $100 = $250 available to pay for the students' admission fees. This means they can afford to bring $250 / $10 = 25 students on the trip. The answer is 25.
[Question]There are 25 different layers of rock in a canyon’s strata. Five of the layers are limestone. Half of the rest are sandstone. Four of the remaining are quartz. Half of the rest are shale. The rest are all different kinds of rock. How many kinds of rock make up only one layer in the canyon’s strata?
[Answer]There are 25 - 5 = 20 layers of rock that are not limestone. Half of those 20 are sandstone, so there are 20 / 2 = 10 that are not limestone or sandstone. Four of those are quartz, so 10 - 4 = 6 layers are not limestone, sandstone, or quartz. Half of the rest are shale, so 6 / 2 = 3 kinds of rock remain that make up only one layer in the strata. The answer is 3.
[Question]Anthony has 16 pets. This morning he forgot to lock the door and he lost 6 pets. After that 1/5 of his pets died from old age. How many pets does he have left?
[Answer]
Anthony lost 6 pets, so he has 16 - 6 = 10 pets left. Then 1 / 5 * 10 = 2 died from old age. So, Anthony now has 10 - 2 = 8 pets. The answer is 8.