Question: Lisa is making a pizza. She uses 30 pieces of pepperoni for a pizza, twice as many pieces of ham, and 12 more pieces of sausage than pepperoni. If there are 6 slices of pizza, and everything was distributed evenly, how many pieces of meat altogether are on each slice?
Answer: There are 30 * 2 = 60 pieces of ham put on the pizza. There are 30 + 12 = 42 pieces of sausage put on the pizza. There are 30 / 6 = 5 pieces of pepperoni on each pizza slice. There are 60 / 6 = 10 pieces of ham on each pizza slice. There are 42 / 6 = 7 pieces of sausage on each pizza slice. There are 5 + 10 + 7 = 22 pieces altogether on each slice of pizza. The answer is 22.
[Question]Don can paint 3 tiles a minute, Ken can paint 2 more tiles a minute than Don and Laura can paint twice as many tiles as Ken. Kim can paint 3 fewer tiles than Laura can in a minute. How many tiles can Don, Ken, Laura and Kim paint in 15 minutes?
[Answer]Ken paints 3 tiles / minute + 2 tiles / minute = 5 tiles / minute. Laura can paint 5 tiles / minute x 2 = 10 tiles / minute. Kim can paint 10 tiles / minute - 3 tiles / minute = 7 tiles / minute. All 4 can paint 3 tiles / minute + 5 tiles / minute + 10 tiles / minute + 7 tiles / minute = 25 tiles / minute. In 15 minutes, they can paint 15 minutes x 25 tiles / minute = 375 tiles. The answer is 375.
Q: Jake's neighbors hire him to mow their lawn and plant some flowers. Mowing the lawn takes 1 hour and pays $15. If Jake wants to make $20/hour working for the neighbors, and planting the flowers takes 2 hours, how much should Jake charge (in total, not per hour) for planting the flowers?
A: First figure out how many hours total Jake works by adding the time spent mowing the lawn to the time spent planting flowers: 1 hour + 2 hours = 3 hours. Then figure out how much money Jake makes if he earns $20 / hour for three hours by multiplying the time spent by the pay rate: $20 / hour * 3 hours = $60. Then subtract the money Jake gets paid for mowing the lawn from the total to find how much he should charge in total for planting the flowers: $60 - $15 = $45. The answer is 45.
Question: Ivan buys 48 apples to make 24 full-size pies. He ends up not using as many as he thought because he decides to make mini pies instead of full-size ones, which only use 1/2 an apple each. If Ivan bakes 24 mini pies, how many apples does he have leftover?
Answer: Ivan wants to bake 24 pies which use 1 / 2 an apple each, 24 pies x 1 / 2 apple each = 12 apples. Ivan uses 12 of his 48 apples, 48 - 12 = 36 apples. Ivan has 36 apples leftover. The answer is 36.
[Question]Lydia has 80 plants. 40% of her plants are flowering plants. Lydia wants to place a fourth of her flowering plants on the porch. If each flowering plant produces 5 flowers, how many flowers are there in total on the porch?
[Answer]Lydia has 80 * 0.40 = 32 flowering plants. Lydia places 32 / 4 = 8 of the flowering plants on the porch. There are 8 * 5 = 40 flowers on the porch. The answer is 40.
[Question]There are 1250 pairs of shoes in the warehouse. There are 540 pairs that are blue. The rest are either green or purple. The number of green shoes is equal to the number of purple shoes. How many pairs of purple shoes are in the warehouse?
[Answer]
1250 - 540 = 710. 710 / 2 = 355. There are 355 pairs of purple shoes in the warehouse. The answer is 355.