Question: Holly needs to take 2 insulin pills per day, 3 blood pressure pills per day, and twice as many anticonvulsants as blood pressure pills each day. How many pills does Holly take in a week?
Answer: First find the number of anticonvulsant pills Holly takes: 3 pills * 2 = 6 pills. Then find the total number of pills Holly takes each day: 6 pills + 2 pills + 3 pills = 11 pills. Then multiply that number by the number of days in a week to find the number of pills Holly takes each week: 11 pills / day * 7 days / week = 77 pills / week. The answer is 77.
[Question]Melanie does her weekly shopping at the farmer's market. She starts with an 8-ounce wheel of brie cheese. Next is a 1 pound loaf of bread. She grabs a pound of tomatoes and 2 pounds of zucchini. After that, she grabs 1 1/2 pounds of chicken breasts and treats herself to 8 ounces of fresh raspberries and 8 ounces of fresh blueberries. How many pounds of food does she buy?
[Answer]She bought 8ounces of cheese, 8 - ounce raspberries, 8 ounces of blueberries for a total of 8 * 3 = 24 ounces. 16 ounces are in 1 pound and she has 24 ounces of food so she has 24 / 16 = 1.5 pounds of food. Those items are 1.5 pounds and she bought 1 pound of bread, 1 pound of tomatoes, 2 pounds of zucchini and 1.5 pounds of chicken for a total of 1.5 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 1.5 = 7 pounds of food. The answer is 7.
Q: Samuel swept the porch and cleared nine-tenths of the dust particles from it. As he walked across the porch afterward, his shoes left 223 dust particles behind. How many dust particles were on the porch before Samuel swept if there were 331 after he walked across it?
A: Before Samuel walked across the porch, there were 331 - 223 = 108 dust particles. Those 108 were 1 / 10 of the original amount, so there were 108 * 10 = 1080 dust particles on the porch before Samuel swept. The answer is 1080.
Question: Kelly needs school supplies to teach her class for an art project. She has 8 students and they will need 3 pieces of construction paper each. In addition to the construction paper, she needs to buy 6 bottles of glue for everyone to share. After Kelly purchases these supplies, she dropped half of them down a storm drain. Class is about to start, but she manages to rush to the store and buy 5 more pieces of construction paper. How many supplies are left?
Answer: Kelly needs 8 * 3 = 24 pieces of construction paper. She buys glue which grows the supplies to 24 + 6 = 30. Unfortunately, she dropped 30 / 2 = 15 supplies. Rushing to the store, she buys more construction paper bringing her supplies back to 15 + 5 = 20. The answer is 20.
[Question]Jaynie wants to make leis for the graduation party. It will take 2 and half dozen plumeria flowers to make 1 lei. If she wants to make 4 leis, how many plumeria flowers must she pick from the trees in her yard?
[Answer]To make 1 lei, Jaynie will need 2.5 x 12 = 30 plumeria flowers. To make 4 leis, she will need to pick 30 x 4 = 120 plumeria flowers from the trees. The answer is 120.
[Question]There are 16 people at a dinner party. There are 40 dinner rolls available for them. Half the people eat 1 1/2 rolls each. The other half eat 1/2 a roll each. How many dinner rolls are leftover?
[Answer]
Half the people at the party is 16 / 2 = 8 people. 8 people at the party eat 1 1 / 2 rolls each, 8 x 1 1 / 2 = 12 dinner rolls eaten. 8 people at the party eat 1 / 2 a roll each, 8 x 1 / 2 = 4 dinner rolls eaten. Combined, the people at the party ate 12 + 4 = 16 dinner rolls. There were originally 40 dinner rolls - 16 that got eaten = 24 dinner rolls leftover. The answer is 24.