Q: A Printing shop needs to ship 5000 brochures to an advertising company. Each box can only contain one-fifth of the brochures. How many boxes are needed to ship those brochures?
A: 5000 x 1 / 5 = 1000 brochures can fit in one box. Thus, 5000 / 1000 = 5 boxes are needed. The answer is 5.
Question: Oxford High School has 48 teachers, 1 principal and 15 classes with each having 20 students. How many people are there in total in Oxford High School?
Answer: There are 48 teachers. There is 1 principal. There are 15 classes × 20 students / class = 300 students. The total number of people in Oxford High School are 300 people + 48 people + 1 people = 349 people. The answer is 349.
[Question]Bill composes 20 total math questions for money. Ryan composes twice as many problems as Bill, and Frank composes 3 times as many as Ryan. Assuming each person has to compose 4 different types of math problems in equal proportion out of the total amount, how many problems of each type does Frank compose?
[Answer]Since Ryan composes twice as many problems as Bill's total of 20, this means Ryan composes 20 * 2 = 40 problems. Frank composes 3 times as many as Ryan does, so this means Frank composes 40 * 3 = 120 problems. Since Frank needs to submit 4 types of problems in equal proportion out of his total, this means he needs to make 120 / 4 = 30 problems of each type. The answer is 30.
Q: One barnyard owl makes 5 hoot sounds per minute. If 5 less than 20 hoots per minute are heard coming out of the barn, how many Barnyard owls would this noise be coming from?
A: 5 less than 20 hoots per minute is 20 - 5 = 15 hoots per minute. If one barnyard owl makes 5 hoot sounds per minute, then 15 hoots per minute are coming from 15 / 5 = 3 barnyard owls. The answer is 3.
Question: A dental office gives away 2 toothbrushes to every patient who visits. His 8 hour days are packed and each visit takes .5 hours. How many toothbrushes does he give in a 5 day work week?
Answer: Each day he does 8 / .5 = 16 visits. So he does 16 * 5 = 80 visits a week. That means he gives away 80 * 2 = 160 toothbrushes a week. The answer is 160.
Q: James hires a seamstress to fix all his shirts and pants. He has 10 shirts and 12 pairs of pants. It takes 1.5 hours to fix a shirt and twice as long for pants. The tailor charges $30 per hour. How much does it cost?
A:
It takes 10 * 1.5 = 15 hours to fix his shirts. It takes 1.5 * 2 = 3 hours per pair of pants. So it takes 3 * 12 = 36 hours for the pants. That means in total it takes 15 + 36 = 51 hours. So it cost 51 * 30 = $1530 to fix everything. The answer is 1530.