[Question]Walter wants to serve hushpuppies to his guests for his annual fish fry event. He thinks each guest will eat 5 hushpuppies and he is having 20 guests. He can cook 10 hushpuppies in 8 minutes. How long will it take to cook all of the hushpuppies?
[Answer]He wants to serve 5 hushpuppies to each guest and he is having 20 guests so that's 5 * 20 = 100 hush puppies. He can only cook 10 hushpuppies at a time and he needs to cook 100 hushpuppies so that's 100 / 10 = 10 batches of hushpuppies. Each batch takes 8 minutes to cook and he has 10 batches to cook so it will take him 8 * 10 = 80 minutes. The answer is 80.
Q: Aubriella is pouring water into a 50-gallon fish tank at the rate of 1 gallon every 20 seconds. How many more gallons will she have to pour into the tank to fill the tank if she poured water into the fish tank for 6 minutes?
A: When she poured water into the gallon for 6 minutes, the total time in seconds she took is 6 minutes * 60 seconds / minute = 360 seconds. If in 20 seconds she poured 1 gallon of water into the tank, in 360 seconds, she poured 360 seconds / 20 seconds / gallon = 18 gallons of water into the tank. Aubriella will have to pour 50 gallons - 18 gallons = 32 more gallons into the tank to fill the tank. The answer is 32.
Question: Ben's hockey team is 60% boys and the rest are girls. Half the girls are juniors and the other half are seniors. If the team has 50 players, how many junior girls are there?
Answer: The team is 40% girls because 100 - 60 = 40. The team has 20 girls because 50 x .4 = 20. The team has 10 junior girls because 20 / 2 = 10. The answer is 10.
[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: Carson needs to mow the lawn and plant some flowers. Carson has to mow 40 lines to cover the whole yard, and it takes him 2 minutes to mow one line. He also needs to plant 8 rows of flowers, each with 7 flowers, and it takes him half a minute to plant each flower. How many minutes will Carson spend gardening?
A: First find the total time Carson spends mowing: 40 lines * 2 minutes / line = 80 minutes. Then find the total number of flowers Carson plants: 8 rows * 7 flowers / row = 56 flowers. Then multiply that number by the time taken to plant each flower to find the total time spent planting flowers: .5 minutes / flower * 56 flowers = 28 minutes. Finally, add that time to the time spent mowing to find the total time spent gardening: 28 minutes + 80 minutes = 108 minutes. The answer is 108.
Question: Hally and her friends organized a high school reunion. To cover the cost of a late-night party that they planned for at the reunion, each attendee had to pay $100. After the party, Hally and her friends realized that the total expenses were $500 less than the total contributions. If there were 50 people at the party, how much money was used to pay for the party expenses?
Answer:
The total planned cost for the party was 100 * 50 = $5000. The total expenses for the party are 5000 - 500 = $4500. The answer is 4500.