[Question]A museum has eight different wings displaying four times as many artifacts as paintings displayed. Three of the wings are dedicated to paintings. The artifacts are divided evenly among the remaining wings. One painting is so large it takes up an entire wing, and the other two wings house 12 smaller paintings each. How many artifacts are in each artifact wing?
[Answer]The museum has 2 * 12 + 1 = 25 paintings displayed in the painting wings. There are 4 times as many artifacts displayed, so there are 25 * 4 = 100 artifacts. There are 8 wings and 3 are painting wings, so there are 8 - 3 = 5 artifact wings. Each artifact wing has 100 / 5 = 20 artifacts in it. The answer is 20.
Q: Mary is writing a story, and wants her 60 characters to be split according to their initials. Half of her characters have the initial A, and half of this amount have the initial C. Mary wants the rest of her characters to have the initials D and E, but she wants there to be twice as many characters with the initial D as there are characters with the initial E. How many of Mary’s characters have the initial D?
A: Half the characters have the initial A, which is a total of 60 / 2 = 30 characters. This means that 30 / 2 = 15 characters have the initial C. Mary wants the remaining 60 – 30 – 15 = 15 characters to have the initials D or E. For there to be twice as many characters with the initial D, the characters are divided into 2 + 1 = 3 parts. Dividing by this means there are 15 / 3 = 5 characters with the initial E. This leaves 15 – 5 = 10 characters with the initial D. The answer is 10.
Question: Jess and her family play Jenga, a game made up of 54 stacked blocks in which each player removes one block in turns until the stack falls. The 5 players, including Jess, play 5 rounds in which each player removes one block. In the sixth round, Jess's father goes first. He removes a block, causing the tower to almost fall. Next, Jess tries to remove another block knocking down the tower. How many blocks did the tower have before Jess's turn?
Answer: In each round, the 5 players removed a total of 5 * 1 = 5 blocks. In the 5 rounds played, the players removed a total of 5 * 5 = 25 blocks. Adding the block removed by Jess's father in the sixth round, a total of 25 + 1 = 26 blocks were removed. Before the tower fell, there were 54 - 26 = 28 blocks. The answer is 28.
[Question]Joey needs to take a new prescription. The first day he needs to take one pill. Each day he must take two more pills than the previous day. How many pills will he take in a week?
[Answer]For the second day he takes 1 + 2 = 3 pills. For the third day he takes 3 + 2 = 5 pills. For the fourth day he takes 5 + 2 = 7 pills. For the fifth day he takes 7 + 2 = 9 pills. For the sixth day he takes 9 + 2 = 11 pills. For the seventh day he takes 11 + 2 = 13 pills. For the entire week he takes a total of 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 + 11 + 13 = 49 pills. The answer is 49.
Q: Stephanie is planning dinners to cook for the week and needs to figure out how much of each ingredient she should buy at the grocery store. She is making three recipes that call for lower sodium soy sauce as a main ingredient. One bottle of lower sodium soy sauce holds 16 ounces. There are 8 ounces in 1 cup. The first recipe Stephanie is going to cook calls for 2 cups of lower sodium soy sauce. The second recipe calls for 1 cup. The third recipe calls for 3 cups. If Stephanie can only buy 1 whole bottle of soy sauce no matter how much she needs exactly, how many bottles of lower sodium soy sauce should Stephanie buy to allow for all three recipes?
A: First, Stephanie needs to figure out how many cups of soy sauce she needs total, 2 cups + 1 cup + 3 cups = 6 cups total of lower sodium soy sauce. Then Stephanie needs to figure out how many ounces are in 6 cups of lower sodium soy sauce, 6 x 8 ounces each cup = 48 total ounces of lower sodium soy sauce. Next Stephanie needs to figure out how many bottles of soy sauce to purchase to get 48 ounces, where 1 bottle has 16 ounces, 48 / 16 = 3 bottles of lower sodium soy sauce. The answer is 3.
Question: Without factoring in the cost of depreciation for his car John made $30,000 doing Uber. When he finally traded in the car he bought for $18,000 he got $6000 back. What was his profit from driving Uber?
Answer:
His car depreciated 18000 - 6000 = $12000. So he made a profit of 30000 - 12000 = $18000. The answer is 18000.