[Question]James opens up a flower shop. He needs to pay rent of $1200 a week with an additional 20% of rent to pay for utilities and he has 2 employees per shift with the store open 16 hours a day for 5 days a week. If he pays each employee $12.50 an hour, what are his weekly expenses to run the store?
[Answer]He is open 16 * 5 = 80 hours a week. So he pays each of his employees 12.5 * 80 = $1000 per week. Since there are two employees, he pays them in total 2 * $1000 = $2000 per week. The utilities cost 1200 * .2 = $240. So his total cost per week is 1200 + 2000 + 240 = $3440. The answer is 3440.
Q: During 5 hours, a spider can catch 9 flies. How many flies would this spider catch in 30 hours if he would keep his efficiency?
A: 30 hours is 30 / 5 = 6 times more time. So the spider would be able to catch 6 * 9 = 54 flies. The answer is 54.
Question: Fred has 38 red marbles, half as many green ones, and the rest are dark blue. If he has 63 marbles, how many of them are dark blue?
Answer: Fred has 38 / 2 = 19 green marbles. Fred has 63 - 38 - 19 = 6 dark blue marbles. The answer is 6.
[Question]Before he lost one, Policeman O'Brien had 5 more than twice as many hats as fire chief Simpson. If fire chief Simpson has 15 hats, how many hats does Policeman O'Brien now have?
[Answer]Twice as many hats as fire chief Simpson has is 2 * 15 = 30 hats. 5 more than 30 hats is 30 + 5 = 35 hats. One less than 35 hats is 35 - 1 = 34 hats. The answer is 34.
Q: Kiaan is doing home delivery of newspapers in his neighborhood of 200 homes. After an hour of work, he has distributed newspapers to 2/5 of the homes. After another 2 hours of working, he realizes he has distributed newspapers to 60 percent of the remaining homes. How many homes does he still need to distribute the newspapers to?
A: After the first hour of work, he has distributed newspapers to 2 / 5 * 200 = 80 homes. The number of homes that still need newspapers is 200 - 80 = 120. Two hours later, the number of homes he has distributed newspapers to is 60 / 100 * 120 = 72 homes. The number of homes he still needs to distribute newspapers to is 120 - 72 = 48 homes. The answer is 48.
Question: Betsy won 5 games of Monopoly. Helen won twice as many as Betsy and Susan won three times as many as Betsy. Between them, how many games have they won?
Answer:
Helen won twice as many games as Betsy's 5 so Helen won 2 * 5 = 10 games. Susan won three times as many games as Betsy's 5 so Susan won 3 * 5 = 15 games. When you combine their wins, together they won 5 + 10 + 15 = 30 games total. The answer is 30.