Question: Johan has a ten-bedroom house with 8 walls in each room. He paints 3/5 of the rooms in the house green and paints the rest of the rooms with purple color. How many walls in the house did he paint purple?
Answer: Since Cristian's house has ten rooms, he painted 3 / 5 * 10 = 6 rooms with green color. The number of rooms he painted with purple is 10 - 6 = 4 rooms. Since each room in the house has eight walls, the number of walls painted purple is 8 * 4 = 32. The answer is 32.
[Question]Wallace runs a beef jerky company. The company dries the jerky low and slow, so one batch of jerky takes all night to make. Each batch can make 10 bags of jerky. Wallace received a customer order for 60 bags of jerky. If he has 20 bags of jerky already made, how many days will it be before he can fulfill the customer’s order?
[Answer]Wallace already has 20 bags of jerky, so he needs to make 60 - 20 = 40 bags more. He can make 10 bags per day, so he needs 40 / 10 = 4 days to fulfill the customer’s order. The answer is 4.
Q: The owner of a Turkish restaurant wanted to prepare traditional dishes for an upcoming celebration. She ordered ground beef, in four-pound packages, from three different butchers. The following morning, the first butcher delivered 10 packages. A couple of hours later, 7 packages arrived from the second butcher. Finally, the third butcher’s delivery arrived at dusk. If all the ground beef delivered by the three butchers weighed 100 pounds, how many packages did the third butcher deliver?
A: Since each package weighed 4 pounds, the first butcher delivered 10 * 4 = 40 pounds. The second butcher's delivery was 7 * 4 = 28 pounds. The first two butchers therefore delivered 40 + 28 = 68 pounds. Subtracting that weight from the total weight of ground beef gives 100 - 68 = 32 pounds. It therefore means the third butcher delivered 32 / 4 = 8 packages. The answer is 8.
Question: Jake and Penny are hunting snakes. Jake's snake is 12 inches longer than Jenny's snake. If the two snakes have a combined length of 70 inches, how long is Jake's snake?
Answer: Let j be the length of Jake's snake and p be length of Penny's snake. We know that j + p = 70, and j = p + 12. We can substitute the second equation into the first equation to get p + 12 + p = 70. Combining like terms, we get 2p + 12 = 70. Subtracting 12 from both sides, we get 2p = 58. Dividing both sides by 2, we get p = 58 / 2 = 29 inches. Penny's snake is 29 inches. Substituting that length in to the equation j = p + 12, we get j = 29 inches + 12 inches = 41 inches. The answer is 41.
[Question]A fixer uses 30% of the nails in a container to repair the kitchen. He also used 70% of the remaining nails in the container to repair the fence. If there were 400 nails in the container, how many nails are remaining?
[Answer]The fixer used 30 / 100 * 400 = 120 nails to fix the kitchen. The number of nails remaining in the container after he fixes the kitchen is 400 - 120 = 280. He also uses 70 / 100 * 280 = 196 of the nails remaining in the container to fix the fence. The total number of nails which the fixer hasn't used is 280 - 196 = 84. The answer is 84.
[Question]Abe owns a restaurant. Every month he spends a third of his budget on food, a quarter of his budget on restaurant supplies, and the rest of his budget on employee wages. If his budget is $3000 and he uses it up every month, how much is he spending on wages?
[Answer]
Abe is spending a third of his budget on food, so he spends $3000 / 3 = $1000 on food. He spends a quarter of his budget on restaurant supplies, so he spends $3000 / 4 = $750 on supplies. Thus, he spends $3000 - $1000 - $750 = $1250 on employee wages every month. The answer is 1250.