Question: Bruce recently had a birthday. His aunt sent him a card with $75 and his grandfather sent him a card that had $150 in it. He wants to go on a trip to Europe soon, so he decides to put one-fifth of the money he got for his birthday in the bank. How much money did he put in the bank?
Answer with step-by-step thinking: Bruce got 75 + 150 = 225 dollars for his birthday. He put 225 / 5 = 45 dollars into the bank.
So the answer is 45.


Question: Jamal works at a library shelving books. He has a cart full of books to put away in different sections. In the history section, he shelves 12 books. In the fiction section, he shelves 19 books. In the children’s section, he shelves 8 books but finds 4 that were left in the wrong place that he adds to his cart to shelve elsewhere. He still has 16 books to shelve. How many books did he start with in the cart?
Answer with step-by-step thinking: Jamal started with B books in the cart. He had B - 12 books after the history section. He had B - 12 - 19 = B - 31 books after the fiction section. He had B - 31 - 8 + 4 = B - 35 books after the children’s section. He still had B - 35 = 16 books to shelve. Thus, he started with B = 16 + 35 = 51 books in the cart.
So the answer is 51.


Question: A local farmer is paying 4 kids to help plant rows of corn. Every row of corn contains 70 ears. A bag of corn seeds contains 48 seeds and you need 2 seeds per ear of corn. He pays the kids $1.5 per row. Afterward, the kids are so hungry that they end up spending half their money on dinner. The dinner cost $36 per kid. How many bags of corn seeds did each kid use?
Answer with step-by-step thinking:
The dinner cost $144 dollars because 4 x 36 = 144. The kids earned $288 in total because 144 x 2 = 288. They planted 192 rows of corn because 288 / 1.5 = 192. They planted 13,440 ears of corn in total because 192 x 70 = 13,440. They each planted 3,360 ears of corn because 13,440 / 4 = 3,360. They each planted 6,720 seeds because 3,360 x 2 = 6,720. They each used 140 bags of seeds because 6,720 / 48 = 140.
So the answer is 140.