Question: To try to get the class to eat more vegetables, the teacher says that she will start giving them good character points that the class can redeem for a movie day if they earn enough. The students need to earn 200 points to win the movie day. Each time a student eats their vegetables at lunch she gives the student 2 points. There are 25 students in the class. If they have two school weeks, otherwise known as 10 days to win the movie, what is the average number of vegetables each student must eat per school week to get a movie day?
Answer: The students need eat 100 vegetables in total because 200 / 2 = 100. Each student needs to eat on average 4 vegetables because 100 / 25 = 4. Each student needs to eat 2 vegetables per school week because 4 / 2 = 2. The answer is 2.
[Question]James drives to Canada at 60 mph. It is a distance of 360 miles. He has a 1 hour stop along the way. How long does he take to get to Canada?
[Answer]He spends 360 / 60 = 6 hours driving. That means the trip takes 6 + 1 = 7 hours. The answer is 7.
Q: A publishing house decides to create a contest for new writers and will award a total of $800 in prizes to the 18 novels with the most votes. First place will get $200, second place will get $150, third place $120 and the rest of the awards will be paid with the same amount of money. How much money will each writer earn from fourth place onwards?
A: The first three cash prizes sum to $200 + $150 + $120 = $470. The remaining amount of cash prizes to be distributed is $800 - $470 = $330. The number of novels left to be awarded is 18 – 3 = 15 novels. So each writer from 4th to 18th will earn $330 / 15 = $22. The answer is 22.
Question: Michael has 4 packs of crayons and wants to buy 2 more. One pack of crayons costs $2.5. How much are all the packs of crayons Michael will have after the purchase worth?
Answer: After buying 2 more packs, Michael is going to have 4 packs + 2 packs = 6 packs of crayons. In total all packs are going to be worth 6 packs * $2.5 / pack = $15. The answer is 15.
[Question]Angie is part of a household with shared expenses and contributes $42 a month for necessities. She has a salary of $80 per month. She also pays a share of the household taxes each month. At the end of this month, she had $18 left over. How much did she pay in taxes this month?
[Answer]Angie earned 80 and paid 42 for necessities, so she had 80 - 42 = $38 left. Angie had 18 left after paying taxes, so her share of the taxes was 38 - 18 = $20 this month. The answer is 20.
[Question]There are 40 more buyers in the grocery store today than yesterday. There were half the number of buyers yesterday as there were the day before, and the day before had 50 buyers. Nobody visited the store on more than one day. What's the total number of buyers who've visited the store in the three days?
[Answer]
If yesterday the number of buyers was half the number of buyers the day before, then yesterday there were 1 / 2 * 50 = 25 buyers. Today has 40 more buyers than yesterday, so there were 40 + 25 = 65 buyers today. The total number of buyers in the store for the three days will be 65 + 25 + 50 = 140 buyers. The answer is 140.