[Question]Six bottles of 2 liters of water cost $12. What is the price of 1 liter of water?
[Answer]Each bottle of 2 liters of water costs $12 / 6 = $2. So the cost of 1 liter of water is $2 / 2 = $1. The answer is 1.
Q: Peter needs 80 ounces of soda for his party. He sees that 8 oz cans cost $.5 each. How much does he spend on soda if he buys the exact number of cans he needs?
A: He needs 10 cans because 80 / 8 = 10. He spends $5 because 10 x .5 = 10. The answer is 5.
Question: Josh wants to build a square sandbox that is 3 ft long, 3 ft wide for his son. He can buy sand in 3 sq ft bags for $4.00 a bag. How much will it cost him to fill up the sandbox?
Answer: The sandbox is 3' long, 3' wide so the sq footage of the sandbox is 3 * 3 = 9 sq ft. He needs 9 sq ft of sand to fill the sandbox and he can buy it in 3 sq ft bags so he needs 9 / 3 = 3 bags of sand. The sand costs $4.00 a bag and he needs 3 bags so it will cost him 4 * 3 = $12.00 in sand. The answer is 12.
[Question]A restaurant is offering a fundraiser one day where they donate $2 for every $10 donated by customers. The average customer donates 3 and there are 40 customers that day. How much does the restaurant donate?
[Answer]Customer donated a total of $120 because 40 x 3 = 120. They got $10 a total of 12 times because 120 / 10 = 12. They donated $24 because 12 x 2 = 24. The answer is 24.
Q: Sunny bakes 8 cakes. Then she gives away 2 cakes. Sunny wants to put candles on the remaining cakes. If she puts 6 candles on each cake, how many candles will she use in total?
A: Sunny has a total of 8 - 2 = 6 cakes. Sunny will use a total of 6 * 6 = 36 candles. The answer is 36.
Question: Johnny makes his signature crab dish 40 times a day. It uses 1.5 pounds of crab meat. Crab meat sells for $8 per pound. How much does he spend in a week if he is closed 3 days a week?
Answer:
He uses 40 * 1.5 = 60 pounds of crab meat per day. That cost 60 * 8 = $480 per day. He is open 7 - 3 = 4 days a week. So he spends 480 * 4 = $1920 a week. The answer is 1920.