[Question]Jen bought a bag of cookies and ate three-quarters of the bag that day. The next day, she ate half of the remaining cookies. She has 8 cookies left on the third day. How many cookies were in the bag to start?
[Answer]On the third day, Jen had half of the second day’s cookies left, so on the second day, she had 8 * 2 = 16 cookies. On the second day, she had 1 / 4 of the first day’s cookies left, so she started with 16 * 4 = 64 cookies in the bag. The answer is 64.
Q: At a gym, the blue weights are 2 pounds each, and the green weights are 3 pounds each. Harry put 4 blue weights and 5 green weights onto a metal bar. The bar itself weighs 2 pounds. What is the total amount of weight, in pounds, of Harry's custom creation?
A: The blue weights weigh 4 * 2 = 8 pounds. The green weights weigh 5 * 3 = 15 pounds. The weights weigh 8 + 15 = 23 pounds. The total is then 23 + 2 = 25. The answer is 25.
Question: Stacy has 32 berries. Steve takes 4 of Stacy's berries, and still has 7 less berries than Stacy started with. How many berries did Steve start with?
Answer: Let x be the number of berries Steve started with. x + 4 = 32 - 7. x + 4 = 25. x = 21 berries. The answer is 21.
[Question]In a restaurant, a burger costs $9, and a pizza twice as much. How much would cost one pizza and three burgers?
[Answer]One pizza costs twice as much as the burger, which means 9 * 2 = $18. Three burgers would cost 9 * 3 = $27. So one pizza and three burgers would cost in total 18 + 27 = $45. The answer is 45.
Q: Bart buys $10 of notepads for $1.25 each. They have 60 pages each. How many pages did he buy?
A: He buys 10 / 1.25 = 8 notepads. That means he buys 8 * 60 = 480 pages. The answer is 480.
Question: Neil charges $5.00 to trim up each boxwood. He charges $15.00 to trim it into a fancy shape. The customer wants the entire 30 boxwood hedge trimmed up. He has also asked for 4 specific boxwoods shaped into spheres. How much will Neil charge?
Answer:
He has 30 boxwoods to trim and will charge $5.00 each so he will charge 30 * 5 = $150.00. He will shape 4 boxwoods into spheres for $15.00 each so he will charge 4 * 15 = $$60.00. All total he will charge 150 + 60 = $210.00. The answer is 210.