Question: Henry took 9 pills a day for 14 days. Of these 9 pills, 4 pills cost $1.50 each, and the other pills each cost $5.50 more. How much did he spend in total on the pills?
Answer: There were 9 - 4 = 5 other pills. Each of the other pills cost 1.50 + 5.50 = 7 dollars each. The 5 pills cost a total of 7 * 5 = 35 dollars. The first 4 pills cost 1.50 * 4 = 6 dollars in total. Henry spent a total of 35 + 6 = 41 dollars. The answer is 41.

Question: A boat carrying 20 sheep, 10 cows and 14 dogs capsized. 3 of the sheep drowned. Twice as many cows drowned as did sheep. All of the dogs made it to shore. How many total animals made it to the shore?
Answer: The boat had 20 - 3 = 17 sheep make it to shore. 3 sheep drowned, so 2 * 3 = 6 cows drowned. 10 cows on the boat - 6 drowned = 4 cows made it to the shore. 17 sheep + 4 cows + 14 dogs = 35 animals made it to shore. The answer is 35.

Question: James paves a new parking lot. It is 400 feet by 500 feet. Only 80% of that is useable for parking. It takes 10 square feet to park a car. How many cars can be parked?
Answer: The parking lot is 400 * 500 = 200,000. There are 200,000 * .8 = 160,000 square feet of parking space. That means he can park 16,0000 / 10 = 16000 cars. The answer is 16000.

Question: James creates a media empire. He creates a movie for $2000. Each DVD cost $6 to make. He sells it for 2.5 times that much. He sells 500 movies a day for 5 days a week. How much profit does he make in 20 weeks?
Answer:
He sold each DVD for 6 * 2.5 = $15. So he makes a profit of 15 - 6 = $9. So each day he makes a profit of 9 * 500 = $4500. So he makes 4500 * 5 = $22,500. He makes 22,500 * 20 = $450,000. Then after the cost of creating the movie he has a profit of 450,000 - 2000 = $448,000. The answer is 448000.