Question: There were a total of 50 guests in a movie screening of which half of the guests are women, 15 are men, and the rest are children. In the middle of the movie, 1/5 of the men and 4 children left. How many people stayed?
Answer: Being women half of the guests, there were 50 / 2 = 25 women in the movie screening. Adding the 15 men to the number of women guests, there were 25 + 15 = 40 men and women. From a total of 50 guests, 50 - 40 = 10 were children. Knowing 1 / 5 of the men left, 15 / 5 = 3 men left. Thus, 3 men + 4 children = 7 people left in all. Therefore, 50 - 7 = 43 people stayed. The answer is 43.
[Question]A play was held in an auditorium and its ticket costs $10. An auditorium has 20 rows and each row has 10 seats. If only 3/4 of the seats were sold, how much was earned from the play?
[Answer]There are 20 x 10 = 200 seats in the auditorium. Only 200 x 3 / 4 = 150 seats were sold. Hence, the earnings from the play is $10 x 150 = $1500. The answer is 1500.
Q: Before work, Hayden spends 5 minutes ironing his button-up shirt and 3 minutes ironing his pants. He does this 5 days a week. How many minutes does he iron over 4 weeks?
A: He spends 5 minutes ironing his shirt and 3 minutes ironing his pants so that's 5 + 3 = 8 minutes. He does this every day for 5 days so that's 5 * 8 = 40 minutes. After 4 weeks, Hayden has spent 4 * 40 = 160 minutes ironing his clothes. The answer is 160.
Question: Bronson is an apple dealer. He buys apples from farmers and then transports them to the grocery stores and sells them for profit. He buys individual apples from farmers at a cost of $12 per bushel, and sells them to the stores at a price of $0.40 per apple. If each bushel contains 48 apples, then how much profit, in dollars, does he make after selling 100 apples?
Answer: At a cost of $12 per bushel, and with 48 apples per bushel, then each apple costs Bronson $12 / 48 = $0.25. If he sells the apples to the stores at $0.40 per apple, then he makes a profit of $0.40 - $0.25 = $0.15 per apple. After selling 100 apples to the store, his profit would be 100 * $0.15 = $15. The answer is 15.
[Question]Nathan is buying decorations for his wedding reception. The reception hall will have 20 tables. Each table needs a linen tablecloth ($25 to rent), 4 place settings ($10 each to rent), and a centerpiece. Each centerpiece will have 10 roses ($5 each) and 15 lilies ($4 each). How much will the decorations cost?
[Answer]First find how much the roses for one centerpiece cost: $5 / rose * 10 roses = $50. Then find how much the lilies for one centerpiece cost: $4 / rose * 15 roses = $60. Then find how much the table settings for one table cost: 4 settings * $10 / setting = $40. Then add the cost of both types of flowers, the place settings, and the tablecloth to find the total cost per table: $50 + $60 + $40 + $25 = $175. Then multiply the cost per table by the number of tables to find the total cost: $175 / table * 20 tables = $3500. The answer is 3500.
[Question]The football coach makes his players run up and down the bleachers 40 times. Each time they run up and down 32 stairs one way. If each stair burns 2 calories, how many calories does each player burn during this exercise?
[Answer]
First find the number of stairs the players climb up and down each time: 32 stairs * 2 = 64 stairs. Then multiply the number of stairs per run by the number of runs to find the total number of stairs the players climb: 64 stairs / run * 40 runs = 2560 stairs. Then multiply the number of stairs by the number of calories each stair burns: 2560 stairs * 2 calories / stair = 5120 calories. The answer is 5120.