[Question]Mark is buying asphalt to pave a new section of road. The road will be 2000 feet long and 20 feet wide. Each truckload of asphalt will cover 800 square feet of road. If each truckload costs $75, and there's a 20% sales tax, how much will Mark need to pay for asphalt?
[Answer]First, calculate how many square feet of road Mark needs to cover by multiplying the length by the width: 2000 feet * 20 feet = 40,000 sq ft. Then divide the square footage of road by the number of square feet each truckload will cover: 40,000 sq ft / 800 sq ft / truckload = 50 truckloads. Now multiply the number of truckloads by the cost per truckload: $75 / truckload * 50 truckloads = $3750. Now calculate the sales tax by multiplying $3750 by 20%: $3750 * .2 = $750. Now add the sales tax to the cost of the asphalt to find the total: $750 + $3750 = $4500. The answer is 4500.

[Question]Ursula went to the store and bought butter, bread, a package of cheese, and tea. The bread was 2 times cheaper than the butter, while the price of the butter was 80% of the price of cheese. Tea was the most expensive and cost twice the price of a package of cheese. If the tea cost $10, how much did Ursula pay for her purchases?
[Answer]The price of the tea was twice the price of the cheese, so the cheese cost was 10 / 2 = $5. The price of the butter was 80 / 100 * 5 = $4. If the bread was 2 times cheaper than butter, that means it cost 4 / 2 = $2. That means Ursula paid for all her shopping 2 + 4 + 5 + 10 = $21. The answer is 21.

[Question]A café has a few orders to cook and also needs to makes sandwiches for a group of customers that arrived. 3 local offices have each ordered 10 bacon sandwiches and half of the group that has arrived have asked for 4 bacon sandwiches each. If the café makes a total of 54 bacon sandwiches, how many customers are in the group of customers that arrived?
[Answer]The offices ordered a total of 3 offices * 10 sandwiches each = 30 sandwiches. So the group of customers must have ordered 54 total sandwiches – 30 sandwiches for the offices = 24 sandwiches. This is a total of 24 sandwiches / 4 sandwiches per customer = 6 customers who ordered a sandwich. As only half the group ordered a bacon sandwich, the entire group must have consisted of 6 customers * 2 = 12 customers. The answer is 12.

[Question]Lewis found 4 more items on the scavenger hunt than Samantha. Samantha found four times the amount of items than Tanya who was only able to find 4 items. How many items did Lewis find?
[Answer]
Samantha found 4 times the amount of items as Tanya’s 4 items so Samantha found 4 * 4 = 16 items. Lewis found 4 more items than Samantha who found 16 so he found 4 + 16 = 20 items. The answer is 20.