[Question]A roadwork company is paving a newly constructed 16-mile road. They use a mixture of pitch and gravel to make the asphalt to pave the road. Each truckloads of asphalt uses two bags of gravel and five times as many bags of gravel as it does barrels of pitch to make. It takes three truckloads of asphalt to pave each mile of road. The company paved 4 miles of road on one day, then one mile less than double that on the second day. How many barrels of pitch will the company need to finish the remaining road on the third day?
[Answer]On the second day, the company paved 4 * 2 - 1 = 7 miles. The company has 16 - 7 - 4 = 5 miles of road remaining to pave. They will need 3 * 5 = 15 truckloads of asphalt to pave 5 miles of road. For 15 truckloads, they will need 15 * 2 = 30 bags of gravel. Thus, the company will need 30 / 5 = 6 barrels of pitch to finish the road on the third day. The answer is 6.
Q: Santino has 2 papaya trees and 3 mango trees. If each papaya tree produces 10 papayas and each mango tree produces 20 mangos, how many fruits does Santino have in total?
A: Santino has 2 * 10 = 20 papaya fruits. Santino has 3 * 20 = 60 mango fruits. In total, Santino has 20 + 60 = 80 fruits. The answer is 80.
Question: If seven more rabbits are added to the thirteen in the cage, the number of rabbits in the cage will be 1/3 the number of rabbits Jasper saw in the park today. How many rabbits did Jasper see in the park today?
Answer: If seven more rabbits are added to the thirteen in the cage, the total number becomes 7 + 13 = 20. Triple the number of rabbits in the cage is 3 * 20 = 60, the same as the number of rabbits that Jasper saw at the park today. The answer is 60.
[Question]3 lions and 2 rhinos escape from the zoo. If it takes 2 hours to recover each animal how long did the zoo spend recovering animals?
[Answer]They had to recover 3 + 2 = 5 animals. So it took 5 * 2 = 10 hours to recover everyone. The answer is 10.
Q: Bobby needed to make some trips with his truck and had only 12 gallons of gasoline. He drives to a supermarket 5 miles away and then drives back home. Then he headed to his farm which was 6 miles away. Two miles into the journey, he turned around and drove back home to retrieve some farming tools he forgot to take earlier and drove down to the farm. If he now has exactly 2 gallons of gasoline left, at what rate in miles per gallon has his truck been consuming gasoline?
A: The trip to the supermarket and back home covers 5 + 5 = 10 miles. The round trip of two miles each before he actually went to the farm covers 2 + 2 = 4 miles. Six miles to the farm and the total mileage is 10 + 4 + 6 = 20 miles. The truck consumed 12 - 2 = 10 gallons of gasoline for the total journey. So, the rate is 20 / 10 = 2 miles per gallon. The answer is 2.
Question: John builds a box. The box is 26 inches by 26 inches by 14 inches. The walls are 1 inch thick on each side. How much is the internal volume in cubic feet?
Answer:
The walls take away 2 * 1 = 2 inches from each dimension. So the longer sides are 26 - 2 = 24 inches. That is 24 / 12 = 2 feet. The smaller dimension is 14 - 2 = 12 inches. That is 12 / 12 = 1 foot. So the internal volume is 2 * 2 * 1 = 4 cubic feet. The answer is 4.