Question: Studying for her test, Mitchell had read ten chapters of a book before 4 o'clock. When it clocked 4, Mitchell had read 20 pages of the 11th chapter of the book she was studying from. After 4 o'clock, she didn't read the remaining pages of chapter eleven but proceeded and read 2 more chapters of the book. If each chapter in the book had 40 pages, calculate the total number of pages that Mitchell had read altogether?
Answer: Since each chapter of the book has 40 pages, Mitchell had read 10 * 40 = 400 pages from the first ten chapters. After reading 20 pages of the eleventh chapter, the total number of pages that Mitchell had read is 400 + 20 = 420. The next two chapters that she read had 2 * 40 = 80 pages. In total, Mitchell read 420 + 80 = 500 pages of the book that day. The answer is 500.
[Question]Each wall of a 3 sided shower has 8 tiles running the width of the wall and 20 tiles running the height of the wall. How many tiles are in the shower?
[Answer]There are 8 tiles along the width and 20 tiles along the height for a total of 8 * 20 = 160 tiles. Each wall has 160 tiles and there are 3 walls so there are 160 * 3 = 480 tiles in the shower. The answer is 480.
Q: A building has four floors with ten rooms each. Legacy has to clean each room, and it takes her 6 hours to clean one room. If she earns $15 per hour of work, calculate the total amount of money she makes from cleaning all the floors in the building.
A: Since the building has four floors with ten rooms each, the total number of rooms in the building is 4 * 10 = 40. If it takes Legacy 6 hours to clean each room, she will take 40 * 6 = 240 hours to clean all the rooms in the building. Since she is making $15 per hour of work, she will earn $15 * 240 = $3600 after cleaning all the rooms. The answer is 3600.
Question: William is a jockey. He can ride his horse for 6 hours a day. Over 6 days, he only used the maximum riding time twice. On two days he rode his horse for only 1.5 hours a day and half the maximum time for the next two days. How many hours did William ride his horse during those 6 days?
Answer: William used two days to the limit, which means 6 * 2 = 12 hours of horse riding. For two days he rode a horse 1.5 a day, which makes up to 1.5 * 2 = 3 hours. For the next two days, he used only half of the maximum time which means 6 * 0.5 = 3 hours a day. That means 2 * 3 = 6 hours during these two days. So in total William rode his horse for 12 + 3 + 6 = 21 hours. The answer is 21.
[Question]Dan spent an hour doing 400 work tasks at $0.25 each. Then Dan spent an hour doing 5 work tasks at $2.00 each. How much more did Dan make doing the good work compared to the lower-paid work?
[Answer]Dan spent an hour doing 400 tasks * $.25 = $100. Dan spent an hour doing 5 tasks * $2.00 each = $10.00. Dan made $100 - $10 = $90.00 per hour more doing the higher paid work. The answer is 90.
[Question]Steve has a bank account that earns 10% interest every year. He puts $100 in it, and then 10 each year. How much money is in it after two years?
[Answer]
After one year it earns $10 in interest because 100 x .1 = 10. It has $120 in it after a year because 100 + 10 + 10 = 120. In the second year it earns $12 in interest because 120 x .1 = 12. In the second year it has $142 in it because 120 + 12 + 10 = 142. The answer is 142.