Question: Melissa wants to make some dresses to sell at the upcoming festival. She has 56 square meters of fabric to make them. She knows that each dress takes 4 square meters of fabric and 3 hours to make. How many hours does she have to work?
Answer: Each dress takes 4 square meters of fabric to make, so the number of dresses she can make will be 56 / 4 = 14 dresses. Each dress takes 3 hours to make, thus she will have to work 14 dresses x 3 hours / dress = 42 hours. The answer is 42.
[Question]Ludwig works 7 days a week and he usually works half of the day during Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. If his daily salary is $10, how much does he earn every week?
[Answer]Ludwig earns a total of $10 x 4 = $40 from Monday to Thursday. He earns $10 / 2 = $5 per day on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. So, his total salary for Friday, Saturday, Sunday is $5 x 3 = $15. Therefore, his total weekly salary is $40 + $15 = $55. The answer is 55.
Q: Sonja makes her own peanut butter with peanuts and oil in a blender. She uses a ratio of two ounces of oil to smooth out every eight ounces of peanuts. Her last batch of peanut butter weighed 20 ounces. How many ounces of oil did she use?
A: Sonja uses 2 ounces of oil for 8 ounces of peanuts to make 2 + 8 = 10 ounces of peanut butter. Her last batch weighed 20 ounces, so she made 20 / 10 = 2 times her ratio. Thus, she used 2 * 2 = 4 ounces of oil. The answer is 4.
Question: Kim's TV uses 125 watts of electricity per hour. She runs it for 4 hours a day. If electricity cost 14 cents per kw/h how many cents does her TV cost to run for a week?
Answer: She uses 4 hours / day * 125 watts / hour = 500 watt hours / day. That means she uses 500 watt hours / day * 7 days / week = 3500 watt hours / week. This is 3500 watt hours / 1000 watts / kw = 3.5 kw hours. So her TV cost 3.5 kw hours / week * $0.14 / kw hour = $0.49 / week. The answer is 49.
[Question]Ian won $100 in the lottery. He decided to use the money to pay off debts. He paid $20 to Colin. He then paid twice as much to Helen, as he had paid to Colin. Then finally, he paid half as much to Benedict, as he had paid to Helen. How much money, in dollars, does he have left after paying off debts?
[Answer]Starting with $100, he paid $20 to Colin, leaving him with $100 - $20 = $80. Twice as much as $20 is 2 * $20 = $40. Thus, he paid $40 to Helen, leaving him with $80 - $40 = $40. Half as much to Benedict as he had paid to Helen is $40 / 2 = $20. Thus, he paid $20 to Benedict, leaving him with $40 - $20 = $20 after paying off all debts. The answer is 20.
[Question]Lola and Dora combined their allowance of $9 each to buy a deck of playing cards for $10, they also bought $2 boxes of stickers and split the boxes evenly. How many packs of stickers did Dora get?
[Answer]
Lola and Dora together have $9 / person x 2 people = $18. After buying the deck of cards they had $18 - $10 = $8. With 8 dollars they bought $8 / $2 / pack = 4 packs of stickers. Dora received 4 packs / 2 people = 2 packs of stickers. The answer is 2.