Question: Arven bought five puppies for a total cost of $800. Three puppies are on sale for $150 each. How much does each of those two other puppies cost if they cost the same?
Answer: Three puppies on sale cost $150 x 3 = $450. The other two puppies cost $800 - $450 = $350. So, each of those two other puppies cost $350 / 2 = $175. The answer is 175.
[Question]Alice has 20 quarters. She wants to exchange them for nickels and so she goes to the bank. After getting back from the bank, she discovers that 20% of the nickels are iron nickels worth $3 each. What is the total value of her money now?
[Answer]A quarter is worth five nickels because .25 / .05 = 5. She gets 100 nickels from the bank because 20 x 5 = 100. 20 of the nickels are iron nickels because 100 x .20 = 20. 80 of the nickels are regular because 100 - 20 = 80. The iron nickels are worth $60 because 20 x 3 = 60. The regular nickels are worth $4 because 80 x .05 = 4. Her money is now worth $64 because 60 + 4 = 64. The answer is 64.
Q: A zoo has 8 parrots. It 3 times the number of snakes than parrots and 2 times the number of monkeys than snakes. The number of elephants is half the number of parrots and snakes added up, and there are 3 fewer zebras than elephants. What is the difference in number between the zebras and the monkeys?
A: The zoo has 8 x 3 = 24 snakes. It has 24 x 2 = 48 monkeys. The number of parrots and snakes added up is 8 + 24 = 32. There are 32 / 2 = 16 elephants. There are 16 - 3 = 13 zebras. The difference between zebras and monkeys is 48 - 13 = 35. The answer is 35.
Question: Emma buys 2 containers of milk every school day for lunch. She does not go to school on the weekends. How many containers of milk does she buy in 3 weeks?
Answer: There are 5 school days in a week: 5 days / week x 2 containers of milk / day = 10 containers of milk every week. Finally the number of container for 3 weeks is 3 weeks x 10 containers / week = 30 containers. The answer is 30.
[Question]Omi is twice as old as Kimiko. Arlette is 3/4 times as old as Kimiko. If Kimiko is 28 years old, calculate the average age of the three?
[Answer]If Kimiko is 28, Omi is 2 * 28 years = 56 years old. Arlette is 3 / 4 * 28 years = 21 years old. If you add up their ages, it sums to 21 years + 56 years + 28 years = 105 years. The average age for the three is 105 years / 3 people = 35 years / person. The answer is 35.
[Question]April went to a concert that has two bands. 2/3 of the audience was there for the second band and 1/3 was there for the first band. 50% of the audience there for the second band is under the age of 30. Of this group, 60% are women and there are 20 men. How many people are at the concert?
[Answer]
Of the under - 30s there for the second band, 40% are men because 100 - 60 = 40. There are fifty under - 30s there for the second band because 20 / .4 = 50. There are 100 people there to see the second band because 50 / .5 = 100. There are 150 people at the concert because 100 / (2 / 3) = 150. The answer is 150.