Q: Every time she goes to the store, Felicity gets a lollipop. After she finishes them, she uses the sticks to build a fort. The fort needs 400 sticks to finish it. Her family goes to the store three times a week and she always goes. If the fort is 60% complete, how many weeks has Felicity been collecting lollipops for?
A: She has 240 sticks because 400 x .6 = 240. She has been going to the store for 80 weeks because 240 / 3 = 80. The answer is 80.
Question: Officer Hopps has to give out 200 tickets in May. The first 15 days he averages 8 tickets a day. How many does he have to average each day for the rest of the month to reach his required goal?
Answer: He has given out 120 tickets because 15 x 8 = 120. He has 16 days left to had out tickets because 31 - 15 = 16. He has to give out 80 more because 200 - 120 = 80. He has to give out 5 a day because 80 / 16 = 5. The answer is 5.
[Question]A one-year subscription to a newspaper is offered with a 45% discount. How much does the discounted subscription cost if a subscription normally costs $80?
[Answer]We calculate first the discount: 80 * 45 / 100 = $36. So, the discounted subscription amounts to 80 – 36 = $44. The answer is 44.
Q: Karen had the giant box of crayons, containing twice as many crayons as were in Beatrice's box. But Beatrice's box contained twice as many crayons as were in Gilbert's box of crayons. And Gilbert had four times as many crayons as were in Judah's box of crayons. If Karen's box contained 128 crayons, how many crayons were in Judah's box?
A: If Karen's 128 crayons were twice as many as were in Beatrice's box, there were 128 / 2 = 64 crayons in Beatrice's box. And since Beatrice's box contained twice as many crayons as were in Gilbert's box of crayons, then Gilbert had 64 / 2 = 32 crayons. And since Gilbert had four times as many crayons as Judah, then Judah had 32 / 4 = 8 crayons. The answer is 8.
Question: Joy is winding balls of yarn for her cat to play with. The first ball is half the size of the second ball. The third ball is three times as large as the first ball. She used 27 feet of yarn for the third ball. How many feet of yarn did she use for the second ball?
Answer: The first ball is a third of the size of the third ball, so it used 27 / 3 = 9 feet of yarn. The second ball is twice the size of the first ball, so she used 9 * 2 = 18 feet of yarn. The answer is 18.
Q: A movie that's 1.5 hours long is being replayed 6 times in one movie theater each day. There is a 20-minute advertisement before the start of the movie. How long, in hours, does the movie theater operate each day?
A:
The movie that is being replayed 6 times takes 1.5 x 6 = 9 hours. The advertisements before the start of the movie take 20 x 6 = 120 minutes in all. One hundred twenty minutes is equal to 120 / 60 = 2 hours. Thus, the movie theater operates for 9 + 2 = 11 hours each day. The answer is 11.