Q: Jacob can write twice as fast as Nathan. Nathan wrote 25 letters in one hour. How many letters can the two write in 10 hours together?
A: Since Nathan writes 25 letters in an hour, Jacob writes 25 * 2 = 50 letters in an hour. Together, they write 50 + 25 = 75 letters in an hour,. In 10 hours, they'll write a total of 75 * 10 = 750 letters. The answer is 750.
Question: Milly is making feather boas for her dance team. Each flamingo has 20 tail feathers, and it's only safe to pluck 25% of their tail feathers at one time. If Milly needs to make 12 boas, and each boa has 200 feathers, how many flamingoes does she need to harvest?
Answer: First find the number of feathers Milly can get from one flamingo: 20 feathers * 25% = 5 feathers. Then find how many feathers she needs total: 12 boas * 200 feathers / boa = 2400 feathers. Then divide the number of feathers she needs by the number of feathers per flamingo to find the number of flamingoes she needs to harvest: 2400 feathers / 5 feathers / flamingo = 480 flamingoes. The answer is 480.
[Question]A giant spider is discovered. It weighs 2.5 times the previous largest spider, which weighed 6.4 ounces. Each of its legs has a cross-sectional area of .5 square inches. How much pressure in ounces per square inch does each leg undergo?
[Answer]The spider weighs 6.4 * 2.5 = 16 ounces. So each leg supports a weight of 16 / 8 = 2 ounces. That means each leg undergoes a pressure of 2 / .5 = 4 ounces per square inch. The answer is 4.
Q: Jackson's mother made little pizza rolls for Jackson's birthday party. Jackson ate 10 pizza rolls and his friend Jerome ate twice that amount. Tyler at one and half times more than Jerome. How many more pizza rolls did Tyler eat than Jackson?
A: Jerome ate 2 times the amount of Jackson's 10 pizza rolls, so 2 * 10 = 20 pizza rolls. Tyler ate 1.5 times more than Jerome's 20 pizza rolls, so Tyler ate 1.5 * 20 = 30 pizza rolls. Tyler ate 30 pizza rolls and Jackson only ate 10 pizza rolls so Tyler ate 30 - 10 = 20 more pizza rolls. The answer is 20.
Question: Mia has 4 times as many shells as David. Ava has 20 more shells than Mia. Alice has half the number of shells Ava has. If David has 15 shells, what the total number of conch shells they all have?
Answer: If David has 15 shells, then Mia has 4 * 15 = 60 shells. Ava has 20 more shells than Mia, so that is 60 + 20 = 80 shells. Alice has 1 / 2 the number of shells Ava has, which is 1 / 2 * 80 = 40 shells. The total number of shells all of them have is 15 + 60 + 80 + 40 = 195 shells. The answer is 195.
Q: Henry has 30 more lollipops than Alison does. With 60 lollipops, Alisson has half the number of lollipops Diane has. If they combine the lollipops and eat 45 lollipops each day, calculate the total number of days it will take for them to finish the lollipops.
A:
Since Henry has 30 more lollipops than Alison, he has 60 + 30 = 90 lollipops. Together, Alison and Henry have 90 + 60 = 150 lollipops. Alison has half the number of lollipops that Diane has, meaning Diane has 2 * 60 = 120 lollipops. Altogether, the three have 120 + 150 = 270 lollipops. Since they eat 45 lollipops each day, they'll take 270 / 45 = 6 days to finish all the lollipops. The answer is 6.