[Question]Bert fills out the daily crossword puzzle in the newspaper every day. He uses up a pencil to fill out the puzzles every two weeks. On average, it takes him 1050 words to use up a pencil. How many words are in each crossword puzzle on average?
[Answer]At 7 days a week, it takes Bert 2 * 7 = 14 days of daily crossword puzzles to use up a pencil. Since Bert does one puzzle a day, each crossword puzzle has 1050 / 14 = 75 words. The answer is 75.
Q: Andrew's dog has 12 burrs and six times as many ticks as burrs. How many foreign objects total are caught in the dog's fur?
A: First find how many burrs are caught in the dog's fur: 12 burrs * 6 ticks / burr = 72 ticks. Then add the number of burrs to find the total number objects: 72 objects + 12 objects = 84 objects. The answer is 84.
Question: Tina is working on her homework when she realizes she's having a hard time typing out her answers on her laptop because a lot of the keys are sticky. She is trying to get her homework done before dinner, though, so she needs to decide if she has time to clean her keyboard first. Tina knows her assignment will only take 10 minutes to complete. Dinner will be ready at 5:30 p.m. Tina decides to time how long it takes to remove and clean one key and will then multiply that time by how many keys she needs to fix. She counts 15 keys that are sticky and times it to take 3 minutes to clean one. After Tina has cleaned one key, there are 14 left to clean. How many minutes total will it take for Tina to both clean the remaining keys and finish her assignment?
Answer: Tina has already cleaned one key so she has 14 left which take 3 minutes each to clean, 14 x 3 = 42 minutes to clean all the keyboard keys. Her assignment will take 10 minutes to complete, so she needs 42 minutes + 10 minutes = 52 minutes total before dinner. The answer is 52.
[Question]A package of candy has 3 servings with 120 calories each. John eats half the package. How many calories did he eat?
[Answer]There were 3 * 120 = 360 calories in the package. So he ate 360 / 2 = 180 calories. The answer is 180.
Q: Jennifer wants to go to a museum. There is one 5 miles away from her home and one 15 miles away. If Jennifer goes to both museums on two separate days, how many miles total will she travel?
A: Jennifer's home is 5 miles away from the first museum, so the round trip back and forth is 5 miles there + 5 miles back = 10 miles altogether. On another day Jennifer goes to a museum 15 miles away + 15 miles to return home = 30 miles total. Combined, Jennifer travels 10 miles on the first day + 30 miles on the second day = 40 miles Jennifer travels total. The answer is 40.
Question: On our last vacation, I bought 4 times as many tetras as Tim bought clowns. Tim bought twice as many clowns as Rick bought guppies. If Rick bought 30 guppies, how many animals did we buy on our last vacation?
Answer:
If Rick bought 30 guppies, Tim bought 2 clowns / guppy * 30 guppies = 60 clowns. The total number of tetras bought by you is 4 tetras / clown * 60 clowns = 240 tetras. In total, the three bought 240 tetras + 60 clowns + 30 guppies = 330 animals. The answer is 330.