[Question]Chastity made 12 angel food cakes to give to friends. She placed the cakes in boxes, and then walked them out to her car. But she had forgotten her keys. So, she placed the boxes of cakes in one stack on the hood of her car, and then she ran back into the house to get her keys. But before she returned, a black crow came, landed on the stack of cakes, and knocked over half of the stack. When Chastity returned, she picked up half of the fallen cakes, which were not damaged, but the rest of the cakes were destroyed. How many cakes were destroyed?
[Answer]There were 12 / 2 = 6 fallen cakes. Half of 6 fallen cakes were destroyed, for a total of 6 / 2 = 3 cakes. The answer is 3.
Q: Joe sells ham and cheese sandwiches for $1.50. If a slice of bread costs $0.15, a slice of ham costs $0.25 and a slice of cheese costs $0.35, how many cents does a sandwich with one slice of each protein cost Joe to make?
A: First find the cost of two slices of bread: $0.15 / slice * 2 slices = $0.30. Then add the cost of one slice each of ham and cheese: $0.30 + $0.25 + $0.35 = $0.90. The answer is 90.
Question: Erica is telling her grandson about the animals she saw during her recent safari in Kenya's Maasai Mara. On Saturday, she saw 3 lions and 2 elephants. She spotted 2 buffaloes and 5 leopards on Sunday, and 5 rhinos and 3 warthogs on Monday. What is the total number of animals that Erica saw?
Answer: On Saturday, Erica saw 3 + 2 = 5 animals. On Sunday she spotted 2 + 5 = 7 animals. On Monday, she saw 5 + 3 = 8 animals. Adding up all the animals Erica saw gives a total of 5 + 7 + 8 = 20 animals. The answer is 20.
[Question]Jen has 10 more ducks than four times the number of chickens. If Jen has 150 ducks, how many total birds does she have?
[Answer]Let the number of chickens be c. If there are 150 ducks, we can describe the number of chickens as 150 = 10 + 4c. So, 4c = 150. And, there are c = 35 chickens. In total, Jen has 35 chickens + 150 ducks = 185 birds. The answer is 185.
Q: In a truck, there are 26 pink hard hats, 15 green hard hats, and 24 yellow hard hats. If Carl takes away 4 pink hard hats, and John takes away 6 pink hard hats and twice as many green hard hats as the number of pink hard hats that he removed, then calculate the total number of hard hats that remained in the truck.
A: If there were 26 pink hard hats and Carl took away 4 pink hard hats, the number of pink hard hats that remained is 26 - 4 = 22. John also took away 6 pink hard hats, leaving 22 - 6 = 16 pink hard hats in the truck. If John also took twice as many green hard hats as pink hard hats, he took 2 * 6 = 12 green hard hats. The total number of green hard hats that remained in the truck is 15 - 12 = 3. In the truck, after some are taken, there were 3 green hard hats + 16 pink hard hats = 19 hard hats in the truck. Altogether, 19 green and pink hard hats + 24 yellow hards hats = 43 hard hats remained in the truck. The answer is 43.
Question: Johnny wrote an essay with 150 words. Madeline wrote an essay that was double in length, and Timothy wrote an essay that had 30 words more than Madeline's. If one page contains 260 words, how many pages do Johnny, Madeline, and Timothy's essays fill?
Answer:
Madeline's essay was 150 x 2 = 300 words. Timothy's essay was 300 + 30 = 330 words. All together, they wrote 150 + 300 + 330 = 780 words. Their essays fill 780 / 260 = 3 pages. The answer is 3.