user: Question: There were 180 apples in each crate. 12 such crates of apples were delivered to a factory. 160 apples were rotten and had to be thrown away. The remaining apples were packed into boxes of 20 apples each. How many boxes of apples were there?
Answer: The total number of apples delivered was: 180 apples x 12 crates = 2160 apples. So, the number of remaining apples after throwing away the rotten ones was: 2160 apples – 160 apples = 2000 apples. And now, we can find the total number of boxes of apples by dividing the remaining number of apples by the number of apples per box: 2000 apples / 20 apples / box = 100 boxes of apples. The answer is 100.
[Question]Mark bought a shirt, pants, and shoes for $340. What is the price of the pants knowing that the price of a shirt is three-quarters of the price of the pants and that the price of a shoe is ten dollars more than the price of the pants?
[Answer]Let X be the price of the pants. The price of the shirt is 3 / 4 * X. The price of the shoes is X + 10. The total amount paid is X + 3 / 4 * X + X + 10 = $340. Combining like terms we get X * 11 / 4 + 10 = $340. Subtracting 10 from both sides we get X * 11 / 4 = $330. Dividing both sides by 11 / 4 we get X = $120. The answer is 120.
Q: For every black & white cookie that Elsa makes, she has to make the batter, bake the cookies for 15 minutes and then allow to cool. She then has to dip the cookies in white icing and allow the icing to harden for 30 minutes. Then she has to re-dip them in chocolate icing and allowed to harden for an additional 30 minutes. If it takes her 2 hours to make the cookies from start to finish, how long does it take to make the dough and cool the cookies before she can start dipping them?
A: It takes 15 minutes to bake, 30 minutes for the white icing to harden and 30 minutes for the chocolate icing to harden so it takes 15 + 30 + 30 = 75 minutes. Every hour has 60 minutes and it takes her 2 hours so it takes 60 * 2 = 120 minutes to make the cookies. It takes 120 minutes to make the cookies from start to finish and she spends 75 minutes baking and hardening icing so it takes her 120 - 75 = 45 minutes to make the batter and cool the cookies. The answer is 45.
Question: The area of square A is 25. The area of square B is 81. What's the length difference between the sides of square A and B?
Answer: The area of a square is calculated as length * width. Because all a square has all sides equal then we can say that given a side S, the area is S * S. For square A of sides A, the area is A * A = 25 or A^2 = 25. Solving for A we know that A = 5. For square B of sides B, the area is B * B = 81 or B^2 = 81. Solving for B we know that B = 9. The side difference between A and B is 9 - 5 = 4. The answer is 4.
[Question]Jeremy loves to play Scrabble. He once played a three-letter word on a triple word score to earn thirty points. If before the word score was tripled, the first and third letters were each valued at one point apiece, how much was the middle letter valued at before the word score was tripled?
[Answer]Since the word score after being tripled was 30 points, then the word score before tripling was 30 / 3 = 10 points. If before the word score was tripled, the first and third letters were each valued at one point apiece, then the value of the middle letter was 10 - 1 - 1 = 8 points. The answer is 8.
[Question]Betty is planning to host her friends over for a party. She buys drinks, cakes, and ice creams at a unit cost of $2, $10, and $5 respectively. How much does she spend if she buys 10 drinks, 5 cakes, and 100 ice creams?
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assistant: The amount she spends on buying drinks is $2 * 10 = $20. The amount she spends on buying cakes is $10 * 5 = $50. The amount she spends on buying ice creams is $5 * 100 = $500. The total amount she spends is $20 + $50 + $500 = $570. The answer is 570.