Question: Daytona Beach has 26 shark sightings a year. Daytona Beach has 5 more than triple the number of shark sightings as Cape May. How many shark sightings are there in Cape May?
Answer: Let x be the number of shark sightings in Cape May. 26 = 5 + 3x. 21 = 3x. x = 7. The answer is 7.
[Question]Max has 8 children and each of his children has the same number of children as he does except for 2 who have 5 children each. How many grandchildren does he have?
[Answer]Out of his 8 children, 2 have only 5 children so the rest who have 8 ( the same number as him) are 8 - 2 = 6. 6 of Max's children have 8 children each for a total of 6 * 8 = 48 grandchildren. 2 of Max's children have 5 children each for a total of 5 * 2 = 10 grandchildren. In total he has 48 + 10 = 58 grandchildren. The answer is 58.
Q: Kim's dad would buy her 2 candy bars a week. She would eat 1 candy bar every 4 weeks, saving the rest. After 16 weeks, how many candy bars did Kim have saved?
A: Kim got 2 candy bars a week for 16 weeks so she got 2 * 16 = 32 candy bars. She would only eat 1 candy bar every 4 weeks so in 16 weeks she only ate 16 / 4 = 4 candy bars. She saved 32 candy bars and only ate 4 so she still has 32 - 4 = 28 candy bars. The answer is 28.
Question: Phyllis has two gardens. In the first garden, she has 20 plants and 10% are tomato plants. In the second garden, she has 15 plants and 1/3 of these plants are tomato plants. What percentage of all the plants in her two gardens are tomato plants?
Answer: The first garden has 2 tomato plants because 20 x .1 = 2. The second garden has 5 tomato plants because 15 x (1 / 3) = 5. She has 7 tomato plants in total because 2 + 5 = 7. She has 35 plants in total because 20 + 15 = 35. The proportion of tomato plants is .2 because 7 / 35 = .2. The percentage of tomato plants is 20 because .2 x 100 = 20. The answer is 20.
[Question]Javier has a wife and 3 children. They have 2 dogs and 1 cat. Including Javier, how many legs are there in total in Javier’s household?
[Answer]For the humans in the house, there are 5 * 2 = 10 legs. Javier has a total of 2 + 1 = 3 four - legged pets. For the pets in the house, there are 3 * 4 = 12 legs. There are a total of 10 + 12 = 22 legs. The answer is 22.
[Question]John is a door-to-door salesman. He visits 50 houses a day. 20% of them buy something from them. Of those that buy something half buy a $50 set of knives and the other half buy a $150 set of knives. How much does he sell a week when he works 5 days a week?
[Answer]
There are 50 * .2 = 10 houses buying from him per day. Of those 10 / 2 = 5 buy each type of knife set. So he gets 5 * 50 = $250 per day from the cheap set. He also gets 5 * 150 = $750 from the expensive set. So he makes a total of 250 + 750 = $1000 per day. That means he makes 1000 * 5 = $5000. The answer is 5000.