[Question]Gary has 6 pounds of flour. He will use 4 pounds of flour to make cakes which require 0.5 pounds of flour each. The remaining 2 pounds of flour will be used to bake cupcakes, which require 1/5 pounds of flour. He plans to sell the cakes for $2.5 each and the cupcakes for $1 each in the school's bake sale. How much will Gary earn?
[Answer]Gary can bake 4 / 0.5 = 8 cakes from the 4 pounds of flour. He can bake 2 / 1 / 5 = 10 cupcakes from the 2 pounds of flour. So, he will earn $2.5 x 8 = $20 from the cakes. Hence, Gary will earn a total of $20 + $10 = $30 from baking 8 cakes and 10 cupcakes. The answer is 30.
Q: Bruce recently had a birthday. His aunt sent him a card with $75 and his grandfather sent him a card that had $150 in it. He wants to go on a trip to Europe soon, so he decides to put one-fifth of the money he got for his birthday in the bank. How much money did he put in the bank?
A: Bruce got 75 + 150 = 225 dollars for his birthday. He put 225 / 5 = 45 dollars into the bank. The answer is 45.
Question: There are 200 snakes in a park. There are three times as many pythons as boa constrictors. If there 40 boa constrictors and the rest of the snakes are rattlesnakes, calculate the total number of rattlesnakes in the park.
Answer: If the number of pythons is three times the number of boa constrictors, then there are 3 * 40 = 120 pythons. Together, the number of pythons and boa constrictors is 120 + 40 = 160. If there are 200 snakes in the park, the number of rattlesnakes is 200 - 160 = 40. The answer is 40.
[Question]Katya sold 8 glasses of lemonade and Ricky sold 9 glasses of lemonade. If Tina sold twice as many as Katya and Ricky's combined sales, how many more glasses of lemonade than Katya did Tina sell?
[Answer]Katya and Ricky sold 8 + 9 = 17 glasses of lemonade. Tina sold 17 x 2 = 34 glasses of lemonade. Tina sold 34 - 8 = 26 more glasses of lemonade than Katya. The answer is 26.
Q: Julia has a parrot and a rabbit. She buys food for both of the animals for $30 in total a week. Julia has the rabbit for 5 weeks, and the parrot for 3 weeks. How much money did Julia already spend on food for her animals, if the weekly cost of the rabbit food is $12?
A: If the rabbit food costs $12 a week, then the parrot food costs $30 - $12 = $18 a week. Julia has the parrot for 3 weeks, so she spent 3 weeks * $18 / week = $54 on her. The rabbit is her only for 5 weeks, so she spent 5 weeks * $12 / week = $60 on him. In total, Julia spent $54 + $60 = $114 on food for her animals. The answer is 114.
Question: Janessa has a plan to give her brother Dexter his first collection of baseball cards. She currently has 4 cards in addition to the 13 that her father gave her. She ordered a collection of 36 cards from eBay. After inspecting the cards she found 4 cards are in bad shape and decides to throw them away. Janessa ended up giving Dexter 29 cards. How many cards did Janessa keep for herself?
Answer:
Janessa starts with 4 cards + 13 cards = 17 cards. She adds 17 cards + 36 cards = 53 cards from the eBay purchase. Janessa decides to throw away 53 cards - 4 cards = 49 cards due to damage. After giving Dexter the present we know that Janessa kept 49 cards - 29 cards = 20 cards for herself. The answer is 20.