Q: Emily makes $1,000,000 per year. If she has 10 employees who make $20,000 per year, how much would her salary be if she took part of her salary to make sure all of her employees make $35,000 per year.
A: Each employee needs $35,000 - $20,000 = $15,000 more per year. In total, Emily needs to pay $15,000 * 10 = $150,000 extra. Emily will need to have a new salary of $1,000,000 - $150,000 = $850,000 per year. The answer is 850000.
Question: Billy has four horses. Each one eats 4 pounds of oats, twice a day. How many pounds of oats does he need to feed his horses for 3 days?
Answer: At each feeding Billy serves 4 horses x 4 pounds of oats / horse = 16 pounds / feeding. Each day Billy uses 16 pounds of oats / feeding x 2 feedings / day = 32 pounds of oats / day. Triple that amount to find the amount of oats needed to feed the four horses for three days: 32 pounds of oats / day x 3 days = 96 pounds. The answer is 96.
[Question]There are 3414 yellow balloons and there are 1762 more black balloons than yellow balloons. If the balloons will be evenly divided among 10 schools, how many balloons will one school receive?
[Answer]Black balloons: 3414 + 1762 = 5176. Total balloons: 3414 + 5176 = 8590. 8590 / 10 = 859. Each school will receive 859 balloons. The answer is 859.
Q: Leo had 400 marbles in a jar. He packed the marbles with ten marbles in each pack, and he gave some of them to his two friends, Manny and Neil.  He gave Manny 1/4 of the number of packs of marbles, Neil received 1/8 of the number of packs of marbles, and he kept the rest. How many packs of marbles did Leo keep?
A: Leo had 400 / 10 = 40 packs of marbles. He gave Manny 1 / 4 x 40 = 10 packs of marbles. And, Neil received 1 / 8 x 40 = 5 packs of marbles. Thus, Leo. gave a total of 10 + 5 = 15 packs of marbles. Therefore, Leo kept 40 - 15 = 25 packs of marbles. The answer is 25.
Question: In the jar, there are 7 blue marbles, 11 red marbles, and some yellow marbles. If the chance of randomly picking a yellow marble is 1/4, how many yellow marbles are there?
Answer: Let y be the number of yellow marbles. There are 11 + 7 + y = 18 + y total marbles. y / (18 + y) = 1 / 4. 4y = 18 + y. 3y = 18. y = 6. There are 6 yellow marbles. The answer is 6.
Q: Denver uses 7 pieces of wood for each birdhouse and he pays $1.50 for each piece of wood. If he makes a $5.50 profit per birdhouse, how much will Denver charge to Danny for buying two birdhouses?
A:
The cost for making one birdhouse is $1.50 x 7 = $10.50. So the selling price of one birdhouse is $10.50 + $5.50 = $16. Thus, Denver will charge Danny $16 x 2 = $32 for the two birdhouses. The answer is 32.