Question: Roberto is out for a hike. He travels uphill at 2 MPH and downhill at 3MPH. The trail is 5 miles long. 60% is uphill and the rest is downhill. How long does it take him to complete it in minutes?
Answer: There is 3 miles uphill because 5 x .6 = 3. This takes him 1.5 hours because 3 / 2 = 1.5. This takes him 90 minutes because 1.5 x 60 = 90. 40% of the trail is downhill because 100 - 60 = 40. There are 2 miles of downhill because 5 x .4 = 2. This takes him 2 / 3 of an hour because 2 / 3 = (2 / 3). This takes him 40 minutes because 60 x (2 / 3) = 40. It takes him 130 minutes in total because 90 + 40 = 130. The answer is 130.
[Question]Tom is cutting a piece of wood to make a shelf. He cut the wood to 143 cm, but it is too long to fit in the bookshelf he is making. He decides to cut 25 cm off the board. But it turned out longer than the other boards. He had to cut off 7 cm from each to make them the same size. How long were the boards before he cut the 7 cm off?
[Answer]After the first cut, the board was 143 - 25 = 118 cm. The other boards were 118 + 7 = 125 cm before they got cut. The answer is 125.
Q: Maggie has an after-school job that pays her $5.00 for every magazine subscription she can sell. She sells 4 to her parents, 1 to her grandfather, 2 to the next-door neighbor and twice that amount to another neighbor. How much money did Maggie earn?
A: Maggie sells 2 subscriptions to a neighbor and twice that amount to another neighbor so she sells 2 * 2 = 4 subscriptions to the other neighbor. In total, Maggie sells 4 + 1 + 2 + 4 = 11 subscriptions. She earns $5.00 per subscription she sells so she earns 5 * 11 = $55.00. The answer is 55.
Question: There are 2000 pinecones on the ground. 20% are eaten by reindeer. Twice as many are eaten by squirrels as reindeer. 25% of the remainder are collected to make fires. How many pinecones are left?
Answer: First find the number of pinecones eaten by reindeer: 20% * 2000 pinecones = 400 pine cones. Then find the total number of pinecones eaten by squirrels: 400 pine cones * 2 = 800 pine cones. Then subtract those two amounts to find the number of pinecones left: 2000 pinecones - 400 pine cones - 800 pine cones = 800 pinecones. Divide that number by 4 to find the number that are collected for fires: 800 pinecones / 4 = 200 pine cones. Then subtract that number from the 800 pinecones to find the total left on the ground: 800 pine cones - 200 pinecones = 600 pine cones. The answer is 600.
[Question]Anna is reading a 31-chapter textbook, but she skips all the chapters that are divisible by 3. If it takes her 20 minutes to read each chapter, how many hours does she spend reading total?
[Answer]First divide 32 by 3, ignoring the remainder, to find how many chapters in the book are divisible by 3: 31 / 3 = 10.33..., which means 10 chapters are divisible by 3. Then subtract that number from the total number of chapters to find how many chapters she reads: 31 chapters - 10 chapters = 21 chapters. Then multiply the number chapters by the time to read each chapter to find the total time she spends reading: 21 chapters * 20 minutes / chapter = 420 minutes. Then divide that time by the number of minutes per movie to find the total time spent reading in hours: 420 minutes / 60 minutes / hour = 7 hours. The answer is 7.
[Question]Dan has two times as many stickers as Tom. Tom has 3 times as many stickers as Bob. If Bob has 12 stickers, how many does Dan have?
[Answer]
Tom has 3 * 12 = 36 stickers. Dan has 2 * 36 = 72 stickers. The answer is 72.