Question: A teacher is making packed lunches for a field trip. Each student needs 2 sandwiches, and will travel in a group with 5 other students. There are a total of 5 groups. How many pieces of bread will the teacher need to make enough sandwiches for all the students?
Answer: If each student travels with 5 others, then groups are made up of 5 + 1 = 6 students. This means there are a total of 5 groups * 6 students = 30 students in the class. Each student needs 2 sandwiches, which means the teacher will make 30 students * 2 sandwiches per student = 60 sandwiches in total. Therefore, the teachers will need 60 sandwiches * 2 pieces of bread per sandwich = 120 pieces of bread. The answer is 120.
[Question]The school store had a sale on pencils. Ten students bought pencils. The first two students bought 2 pencils each. The next six students bought three pencils each and the last two students only bought one pencil each. How many pencils were sold?
[Answer]The first students bought 2 * 2 = 4 pencils. The next 6 students bought 6 * 3 = 18 pencils. The last two students bought 1 + 1 = 2 pencils. In total the store sold 4 + 18 + 2 = 24 pencils. The answer is 24.
Q: Pirate Rick sailed his ship to a tropical island in search of a site to bury his treasure. After finding the perfect site, it took him 4 hours to dig up 8 feet of sand under which to bury the treasure. Once the treasure was buried, he left the island. Then, a tropical storm came and washed away half of the sand from on top of the treasure. Next, a giant tsunami wave poured over the island, adding 2 feet of new sand back onto the site of his treasure. When Pirate Rick returned, how long did it take for him to dig up his treasure?
A: Pirate Rick digs at a rate of 8 feet of sand per 4 hours, or 8 / 4 = 2 feet per hour. Of the 8 feet of sand that were initially on top of the treasure, the storm washed 8 / 2 = 4 feet of sand away. Thus, after the storm and the tsunami, the treasure was buried beneath 8 - 4 + 2 = 6 feet of sand. Digging at a rate of 2 feet per hour, Pirate Rick could uncover his treasure in 6 / 2 = 3 hours. The answer is 3.
Question: A machine at the soda factory can usually fill a barrel of soda in 3 minutes. However this morning a leak went unnoticed and it took 5 minutes to fill one barrel. If the leak remains undetected, how much longer will it take to fill 12 barrels of soda than on a normal day when the machine works fine?
Answer: On a regular day it would take 3 * 12 = 36 minutes. With the leak it will take 5 * 12 = 60 minutes. It will take 60 - 36 = 24 more minutes if the leak goes undetected. The answer is 24.
[Question]An organization trying to save endangered species of turtles has taken twice more hawksbill turtles than the number of green turtles into a conservation center. If the number of green turtles is 800, calculate the number of turtles that have been taken into the conservation center.
[Answer]If the number of hawksbill turtles is twice more than the number of green turtles, then there are 2 * 800 = 1600 more hawksbill turtles. The total number of hawksbill turtles is 800 + 1600 = 2400. The total number of turtles that have been taken into the conservation center is 2400 + 800 = 3200 turtles. The answer is 3200.
[Question]A 1000 car parking lot is divided into 3 sections. There are 320 spaces in section 1, and 200 more in section 2 than in section 3. How many spaces are made available in section 2 of the parking lot?
[Answer]
There are a total of 1000 spaces - 320 spaces = 680 spaces in both sections 2 and 3. Let the number of spaces in section 3 be x. The number of spaces in section 2 = x + 200. We know that 320 + x + 200 + x = 1000. Combining like terms, we get 2x = 480. Dividing both sides by 2 produces x = 240. The number of spaces in section 2 is 240 + 200 = 440. The answer is 440.