Question: A tomato plant has 100 tomatoes. Jane picks 1/4 of that number for use in their house. After a week, she goes back and picks 20 more tomatoes, and the following week picks twice that number. What's the total number of fruits remaining on the tomato plant?
Answer: When she picks 1 / 4 of the number of tomatoes, she goes home with 1 / 4 * 100 = 25 tomatoes. The total number of tomatoes remaining will be 100 - 25 = 75 tomatoes. After picking 20 more tomatoes the following week, the number of tomatoes remaining is 75 - 20 = 55 tomatoes. The next week she picks twice the number she picked the previous week, that is 20 * 2 = 40 tomatoes. The total number of tomatoes remaining after the final picking is 55 - 40 = 15 tomatoes. The answer is 15.
[Question]Sixteen boys and 14 girls attended Simon's birthday party. Three-fourths of the boys and 6/7 of the girls brought gifts. How many of those who attended did not bring gifts?
[Answer]16 x 3 / 4 = 12 boys brought gifts. So, 16 - 12 = 4 boys did not bring gifts. 14 x 6 / 7 = 12 girls brought gifts. So, 14 - 12 = 2 girls did not bring gifts. Therefore, a total of 4 boys + 2 girls = 6 people did not bring gifts. The answer is 6.
Q: A high school bowling team's 3 members scored a total of 810 points in their first match. The first bowler scored 1/3 as many points as the second, and the second bowler scored 3 times as high as the third bowler. How many points did the third bowler score?
A: Let x represent the score of the third bowler. Bowler 2:3x. Bowler 1:3x(1 / 3) = x. Total:x + 3x + x = 810. 5x = 810. x = 162 points. The answer is 162.
Question: Rory has 30 more jellybeans than her sister Gigi who has 15 jellybeans. Lorelai has already eaten three times the number of jellybeans that both girls have. How many jellybeans has Lorelai eaten?
Answer: Rory has 30 more jellybeans than Gigi who has 15 so Rory has 30 + 15 = 45 jellybeans. Rory has 45 jellybeans and Gigi has 15 so that's 45 + 15 = 60 jellybeans total. Lorelai has eaten three times the amount of jellybeans that both girls have so she has eaten 3 * 60 = 180 jellybeans. The answer is 180.
[Question]A plant supplier was able to sell 20 pieces of orchids for $50 each and 15 pieces potted Chinese money plant for $25. The money he earned was then used to pay his two workers $40 each and to buy new pots worth $150. How much money was left from the plant supplier's earnings?
[Answer]The plant supplier earned $50 x 20 = $1000 for the orchids. He earned $25 x 15 = $375 for the potted Chinese money plants. So, his total earnings was $1000 + $375 = $1375. Then he paid $40 x 2 = $80 to his workers. He used a total of $80 + $150 = $230 for the worker's pay and new pots. Hence, he was left with $1375 - $230 = $1145 from his earnings. The answer is 1145.
[Question]There were 21 dollars in the cookie jar. Doris spent $6 from the cookie jar. Martha spent half as much as Doris. How much money, in dollars, was left in the cookie jar?
[Answer]
Martha spent 6 / 2 = 3 dollars. Martha and Doris spent 6 + 3 = 9 dollars. There were 21 - 9 = 12 dollars left in the cookie jar. The answer is 12.