Q: Sandra has a box of apples that weighs 120 pounds. She's going to use half the weight in apples to make applesauce. The rest will be used to make apple pies. She needs 4 pounds of apples per pie. How many pies will she be able to make?
A: The box weighs 120 pounds and she's going to use half of it to make applesauce so she'll use 120 / 2 = 60 pounds for applesauce. The box weighs 120 pounds and she'll use 60 pounds for applesauce so that leaves 120 - 60 = 60 pounds of apples. She has 60 pounds of apples and she needs 4 pounds to make a pie so she can make 60 / 4 = 15 pies. The answer is 15.
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.
[Question]John attends a protest for 4 days. He then attends a second protest for 25% longer than the first. How many days did he spend protesting?
[Answer]The second protest was 4 * .25 = 1 day longer than the first. So the second protest was 4 + 1 = 5 days. Thus he spent 4 + 5 = 9 days protesting. The answer is 9.
Q: Jennifer is building tanks to hold her goldfish. She built 3 tanks that will hold 15 fish each, heated, and filled them. She plans to build the rest of the tanks equipped with heaters, and they will hold 10 fish each. If she needs to build enough tanks to house a total of 75 fish, how many more will she need to build?
A: With the tanks already built it has room for 3 tanks * 15 fish / tank = 45 fish. The total of fish that still lack space is 75 fish - 45 fish = 30 fish. This means Jennifer needs 30 fish / 10 fish / tank = 3 tanks of 10 fish. The answer is 3.
Question: Adam has 50 balls. 20 balls are red, 10 are blue, and the rest are either pink or orange. If there are 3 times as many pink as orange balls, how many orange balls are there?
Answer: Adam has a total of 50 balls - 20 red - 10 blue = 20 pink and orange balls combined. If we let x be the total number of orange balls, we know that 3x is the number of pink balls. Therefore, 20 balls = x + 3x = 4x. The number of orange balls, x, is 20 balls / 4 = 5 balls. The answer is 5.
Q: Bekah had to read 408 pages for history class. She read 113 pages over the weekend and has 5 days left to finish her reading. How many pages will she need to read each day for 5 days to complete her assignment?
A:
Pages left to read: 408 - 113 = 295 pages. 295 / 5 = 59 pages. Bekah needs to read 59 pages each day. The answer is 59.