Question: Sean buys 3 cans of soda, 2 soups, and 1 sandwich. Each soup cost as much as the 3 combined sodas. The sandwich cost 3 times as much as the soup. If the soda cost $1 how much did everything cost together?
Answer: The soda cost 3 * 1 = $3. So the soups cost 2 * 3 = $6. The sandwich cost 3 * 3 = $9. So the total cost of everything was 3 + 6 + 9 = $18. The answer is 18.
[Question]Mark has 30 candies, Peter has 25 candies, and John has 35 candies. They decided to combine their candies together and share them equally. How many candies will each one of them have?
[Answer]The total number of the candies is 30 + 25 + 35 = 90. When the candies are shared equally each one will get 90 / 3 = 30. The answer is 30.
Q: James runs a TV show and there are 5 main characters and 4 minor characters. He pays the minor characters $15,000 each episode. He paid the major characters three times as much. How much does he pay per episode?
A: He pays the minor characters 15000 * 4 = $60,000. The major characters each get 15000 * 3 = $45,000. So he pays the main characters 45,000 * 5 = $225,000. So in total he pays 225,000 + 60,000 = $285,000. The answer is 285000.
Question: Nadine's dog rolls around in the mud. She spends 10 minutes hosing him off outside, then shampoos him three times, which takes 15 minutes per shampoo. How long does she spend cleaning her dog total?
Answer: First find the total shampoo time: 15 minutes / shampoo * 3 shampoos = 45 minutes. Then add the hosing off time to find the total cleaning time: 45 minutes + 10 minutes = 55 minutes. The answer is 55.
[Question]Paul is collecting license plates from different states. He has plates from 40 different states. For each percentage point of total US states that he has, his parents will give him $2. How much does he earn from them?
[Answer]The proportion of plates that he has out of total states is .8 because 40 / 50 = .8. He has 80% of the plates because .8 x 100 = 80. He makes $160 because 80 x 2 = 160. The answer is 160.
[Question]Elsie has a specific amount of wet wipes in a container in the morning. Throughout the day, she refills the container with 10 more wipes after using up 20. By nighttime, she only has 60 wipes left. How many wipes were in the container in the morning?
[Answer]
Let w be the number of wet wipes Elsie had in the morning. Throughout the day, she used w - 20 wet wipes. Once that happened, she had to refill the container resulting in w - 20 + 10 = w - 10 wet wipes. By nighttime, she had w - 10 = 60 wipes. So then, w = 60 + 10 = 70. She started with w = 70 wipes. The answer is 70.