Question: Bob has to hire someone to fix his garden. A storm destroyed all 20 of his rose bushes. He decides to replant all the rose bushes. Each rose bush costs $150. He also needs to pay a gardener $30 an hour, 5 hours each day for 4 days. The final expense is 100 cubic feet of soil sold for $5 per cubic foot. How much did the entire gardening project cost?
Answer: The roses cost 150 * 20 = $3000. The gardener works 4 * 5 = 20 hours. So the gardener charges 30 * 20 = $600. The soil added another 5 * 100 = $500. So in total the cost was 3000 + 600 + 500 = $4100. The answer is 4100.
[Question]Mr. Maximilian is a dairy animal farmer and has 140 cows on his farm. Forty percent of the cows on his farm have a red spot, 25 percent of the cows without a red spot have a blue spot and the remaining cows do not have any spot. How many cows on the farm have no spot?
[Answer]If Mr. Maximilian has 140 cows and 40% of them have red spots, then 40 / 100 * 140 = 56 cows have red spots. The number of cows with no red spot is 140 - 56 = 84 cows. Out of the 84 cows without a red spot, 25% of them have a blue spot, a total of 25 / 100 * 84 = 21 cows. The number of cows without any spot is 84 - 21 = 63 animals. The answer is 63.
Q: Meadow has a business that sells baby diapers to her local townspeople. She orders 30 boxes of diapers containing 40 packs weekly, with each pack having 160 diapers. She sells each diaper for $5. How much money is Meadow making from selling all her diapers?
A: When she orders 30 boxes, the total number of packs in the boxes is 30 * 40 = 1200 packs. If a pack has 160 diapers, 1200 packs contain 1200 * 160 = 192000 diapers. After selling all the diapers, Meadow gets 192000 * $5 = $960000. The answer is 960000.
Question: Beth had a set of 125 gold coins. Carl gave Beth a gift of an additional 35 gold coins. Then, Beth decided to sell half of her coins. How many coins did Beth sell?
Answer: Carl's gift added 35 gold coins to Beth's 125 - coin set, resulting in 135 + 25 = 160 gold coins. Beth chooses to sell half, or 160 / 2 = 80 of her gold coins. The answer is 80.
[Question]Casey is pumping water out of her well. She can pump 3 gallons a minute. She has 4 rows of 15 corn plants each, and each plant needs half a gallon of water. She also has 10 pigs, which each need 4 gallons of water, and 20 ducks that each need a quarter of a gallon of water. How many minutes does Casey need to spend pumping water?
[Answer]First find how many corn plants there are: 15 plants / row * 4 rows = 60 plants. Then find how many gallons of water of the corn needs: 60 plants * 1 / 2 gallon / plant = 30 gallons. Then find how many gallons of water the pigs need: 10 pigs * 4 gallons / pig = 40 gallons. Then find how many gallons of water the ducks need: 20 ducks * 1 / 4 gallon / duck = 5 gallons. Now add up all three quantities of water to find the total water needed: 5 gallons + 40 gallons + 30 gallons = 75 gallons. Now divide the total water needed by Casey's pumping rate to find how long she spends pumping: 75 gallons / 3 gallons / minute = 25 minutes. The answer is 25.
[Question]Jack bought 55 apples. He wants to give 10 to his father and then equally share the remaining apples between him and his 4 friends. How many apples will each of them get?
[Answer]
The number of apples remaining after Jack gave his father 10 is 55 - 10 = 45. The share each one of his friends including him will get is 45 / 5 = 9. The answer is 9.