[Question]Porter is a painter who creates beautiful paintings of wild animals. Most recently, he painted a mural of a pack of wolves standing on a snowy-white mountainside underneath a full moon. He put the painting up for auction and it sold for $1000 less than five times more than he had made on his previous painting. If he received $44,000 for the sale of his most recent painting, how much, in dollars, did he make for selling his previous painting?
[Answer]If $44,000 is $1000 less than five times more than he had made on his previous painting, then $44,000 + $1000 = $45,000 is five times what he made on his previous painting. If $45,000 is five times what he made for his previous painting, then he made $45,000 / 5 = $9,000 for selling his previous painting. The answer is 9000.
Q: MegaCorp got caught leaking carcinogens into the water supply and is being fined 1% of its annual profits. Every day MegaCorp earns $3,000,000 from mining and $5,000,000 from oil refining. Its monthly expenses are $30,000,000. How much is MegaCorp's fine in dollars?
A: First find MegaCorp's total daily profits: $3,000,000 + $5,000,000 = $8,000,000. Then multiply that number by the number of days in a year to find their annual profits: 365 days / year * $8,000,000 = $2,920,000,000. Then multiply their monthly expenses by the number of months in a year to find their annual expenses: $30,000,000 / month * 12 months = $360,000,000. Then subtract their annual expenses from their annual earnings to find their annual profit: $2920000000 - $360,000,000 = $2,560,000,000. Then multiply the annual profits by the percentage paid for the fine to find the value of the fine in dollars: $2,560,000,000 * 1% = $25,600,000. The answer is 25600000.
Question: If Jim has 20 apples, and Jane has 60 apples, and Jerry has 40 apples, how many times can Jim's number of apples fit into the average amount of apples for a person in the group?
Answer: First, we need to find the average number of apples per person. We start by adding the three totals together, getting 20 + 60 + 40 = 120 apples. To finish finding the average number, we perform 120 / 3 = 40 apples per person. Since Jim has 20 apples, we divide the average of 40 by Jim's total to find 40 / 20 = 2 times that Jim's amount can fit into the average. The answer is 2.
[Question]At Palm Meadows, there are 13 hotel rooms. Eight of the rooms have two beds in them and the rest have three beds. How many beds are there in total?
[Answer]There are 13 - 8 = 5 rooms with three beds. There are 5 * 3 = 15 beds for those hotel rooms that have three beds in them. There are 8 * 2 = 16 beds for those hotel rooms that have two beds in them. There are 15 + 16 = 31 beds in total. The answer is 31.
Q: Alec is running for Class President. He thinks that if he can get three-quarters of the class to vote for him then there is no chance anyone else can beat him. Half of the class have already said they will vote for him but out of the remaining students, only 5 have said they are thinking about voting for him. He surveys the students who are thinking about voting for someone else, and changes his flyers to reflect the issues these students are concerned about. This results in a fifth of these students saying they'll vote for him. If Alec's class has 60 students and everyone who said they will vote for him does so, how many more votes does Alec need to reach his goal number of votes?
A: To calculate Alec's goal number of votes, we need to know that 60 students / 4 = 15 students is equal to one - quarter of the class students. Alec's goal is therefore 15 students * 3 quarters = 45 votes. Half of the class said they will vote for him, so there are already 60 students / 2 = 30 votes. Another 5 students are thinking about voting for him which leaves a total so far of 30 + 5 = 35 votes. This means there are 60 students - 35 voting for Alec = 25 students not voting for Alec. A fifth of these decided to vote, so this is a further 25 students / 5 = 5 votes. Alec is therefore receiving a total of 35 + 5 = 40 votes. So he has missed his goal by 45 goal votes - 40 actual votes = 5 votes. The answer is 5.
Question: Archie received his medical receipt from his doctor, and he needs to take antibiotics three times a day. If antibiotic costs $3 each and he needs to take it for a week, how much money does he need to buy the antibiotics?
Answer:
Archie needs $3 x 3 = $9 per day to buy 3 antibiotics. Therefore Archie needs $9 x 7 = $63 to buy antibiotics that will last for a week. The answer is 63.