Question: Jeremy loves to play Scrabble. He once played a three-letter word on a triple word score to earn thirty points. If before the word score was tripled, the first and third letters were each valued at one point apiece, how much was the middle letter valued at before the word score was tripled?
Answer: Since the word score after being tripled was 30 points, then the word score before tripling was 30 / 3 = 10 points. If before the word score was tripled, the first and third letters were each valued at one point apiece, then the value of the middle letter was 10 - 1 - 1 = 8 points. The answer is 8.
[Question]Mark has 30 candies, Peter has 25 candies, and John has 35 candies. They decided to combine their candies together and share them equally. How many candies will each one of them have?
[Answer]The total number of the candies is 30 + 25 + 35 = 90. When the candies are shared equally each one will get 90 / 3 = 30. The answer is 30.
Q: John eats a bag of chips for dinner and then eats twice as many after dinner. How many bags of chips did he eat?
A: He ate 2 * 1 = 2 bags after dinner. So he ate 2 + 1 = 3 bags of chips. The answer is 3.
Question: Carla needs to drive her car to do a bunch of errands. She needs to drive 8 miles to the grocery store, 6 miles to pick up her kids from school, 12 miles to drop her kids off at soccer practice, and twice the distance from the school to soccer practice to get everyone home again. If Carla's car gets 25 miles per gallon, and gas costs $2.50, how much will Carla have to spend on gas for her trip?
Answer: First find the distance between soccer practice and home by multiplying the distance between soccer practice and school by 2: 12 miles * 2 = 24 miles. Then find the total distance Carla drives by adding the length of each trip: 24 miles + 12 miles + 6 miles + 8 miles = 50 miles. Then find how many gallons of gas she needs by dividing the distance of the trip by her car's gas mileage: 50 miles / 25 mpg = 2 gallons. Then multiple the gallons of gas by the price per gallon to find the total cost: 2 gallons * $2.50 = $5. The answer is 5.
[Question]Madeline wants to drink 100 ounces of water in a day. Her water bottle can hold 12 ounces of water. She refills her water bottle 7 times. How much more water does she need to drink?
[Answer]She has already had 12 * 7 = 84 ounces of water. She needs to drink 100 - 84 = 16 more ounces to make it to 100 ounces. The answer is 16.
[Question]Pat is hunting for sharks to take photos. For every photo he takes he earns $15. He sees a shark about every 10 minutes. His boat fuel costs $50 an hour. If he shark hunts for 5 hours, how much money can he expect to make in profit?
[Answer]
He will use $250 in fuel because 5 x 50 = 250. He will be shark hunting for 300 minutes because 5 x 60 = 300. He can expect to see 30 sharks because 300 / 10 = 30. He will make $450 off these photos because 30 x 15 = 450. He will make $200 in profit because 450 - 250 = 200. The answer is 200.