Q: Blake wants to spend his Friday making milkshakes for his family. He knows that he needs 4 ounces of milk and 12 ounces of ice cream for each milkshake. If he has 72 ounces of milk and 192 ounces of ice cream, how much milk will be left over when he is done?
A: He has enough milk to make 18 milkshakes because 72 / 4 = 18. He has enough ice cream to make 16 milkshakes because 192 / 12 = 16. He can only make 16 milkshakes because 16 < 18. He will use 64 ounces of milk because 16 x 4 = 64. He will have 8 ounces of milk left because 72 - 64 = 8. The answer is 8.
Question: Peter is eating chips. Each chip is 10 calories. A bag has 24 chips and costs $2. If he wants to eat 480 calories, how much does he have to spend on chips?
Answer: Each bag has 240 calories because 24 x 10 = 240. He needs two bags because 480 / 240 = 2. It will cost $4 because 2 x 2 = 4. The answer is 4.
[Question]James is building an army of Warhammer 40k figurines. It takes him 20 minutes to paint a space marine and 70 minutes to paint a dreadnought. If he paints 6 space marines and 2 dreadnoughts, how long does he spend painting total?
[Answer]First find the total time James spends painting space marines: 20 minutes / marine * 6 marines = 120 minutes. Then find the total time James spends painting dreadnoughts: 70 minutes / dreadnought * 2 dreadnoughts = 140 minutes. Then add the two amounts of time to find the total time James spends painting: 120 minutes + 140 minutes = 260 minutes. The answer is 260.
Q: If there were 200 students who passed an English course three years ago, and each subsequent year until the current one that number increased by 50% of the previous year's number, how many students will pass the course this year?
A: We begin 3 years ago with 200 students, and moving forward to two years ago we find there were 200 * 1.5 = 300 students who passed. At the end of the subsequent year 50% more students pass than last year's 300, so that means 300 * 1.5 = 450 students pass. At the end of the current year there's another 50% increase over the previous year, meaning we have 450 * 1.5 = 675 students pass. The answer is 675.
Question: Jamestown has 20 theme parks. If Venice has 25 more theme parks than Jamestown, and Marina Del Ray has 50 more theme parks than Jamestown, calculate the number of theme parks present in the three towns.
Answer: Since Venice has 25 more theme parks than Jamestown, there are 20 + 25 = 45 theme parks in Venice. Together, Venice and Jamestown have 45 + 20 = 65 theme parks. With 50 more theme parks than Jamestown, Marina Del Ray has 50 + 20 = 70 theme parks. The total number of theme parks in the three towns is 70 + 65 = 135. The answer is 135.
Q: Elvis is releasing a new album with 10 songs, but he doesn't want to waste too much time on writing. He spends 5 hours in the studio, where he writes, records, and edits his songs. Each song takes 12 minutes to record, then it takes 30 minutes to edit all of his songs.  How many minutes did it take Elvis to write each song, if each song took the same amount of time to write?
A:
5 hours in the studio is the same as 5 * 60 = 300 minutes. To record all of his songs, Elvis takes 12 * 10 = 120 minutes. After editing and recording 300 – 120 – 30 = 150 minutes are left to write all of his songs. Songwriting therefore took 150 / 10 = 15 minutes per song. The answer is 15.