[Question]Alex has 4 new shirts. Joe has 3 more new shirts than Alex. If Ben has eight more new shirts than Joe, how many new shirts does Ben have?
[Answer]Joe has 4 + 3 = 7 new shirts. Ben has 8 + 7 = 15 new shirts. The answer is 15.
Q: Thomas owns 200 books. He decides to sell them and use the money to buy records. Each book sells for $1.5. A record costs $3. If he buys 75 records, how much money does he have left over?
A: He makes $300 selling the books because 200 x 1.5 = 300. He spends $225 on records because 75 x 3 = 225. He has $75 left because 300 - 225 = 75. The answer is 75.
Question: James is building a hall of mirrors. Three of the walls will be completed covered with glass. If two of those walls are 30 feet by 12 feet and the third is 20 feet by 12 feet, how many square feet of glass does he need?
Answer: First find the area of one of the long walls: 30 feet * 12 feet = 360 square feet. Then double that amount since there are two walls: 360 square feet * 2 = 720 square feet. Then find the area of the short wall: 20 feet * 12 feet = 240 square feet. Then add that area to the area of the two long walls to find the total area: 720 square feet + 240 square feet = 960 square feet. The answer is 960.
[Question]A bag of jellybeans contains 8 black beans and 2 more green beans. It also contains 1 less orange bean than green beans. How many jellybeans are there in the bag?
[Answer]There are 8 + 2 = 10 green beans. There are 10 - 1 = 9 orange beans. There are 8 black + 10 green + 9 orange = 27 jelly beans. The answer is 27.
Q: A club is going to get additional members so that they will have 5 more than twice their current number of their members. If the club has 10 members now, how many additional members do they need?
A: Twice the current number of members now is 10 * 2 = 20 members. So, the club wants to have 20 + 5 = 25 members. Therefore, they need to get 25 - 10 = 15 members. The answer is 15.
Question: James replaces the coffee for the household. There are 3 other people in the house and everyone drinks 2 cups of coffee a day. It takes .5 ounces of coffee per cup of coffee. If coffee costs $1.25 an ounce, how much does he spend on coffee a week?
Answer:
There are 3 + 1 = 4 people in the house. So they drink 4 * 2 = 8 cups of coffee a day. That means they use 8 * .5 = 4 ounces of coffee a day. So they use 4 * 7 = 28 ounces of coffee a week. So he spends 28 * 1.25 = $35. The answer is 35.