Question: A watermelon weighs 23 pounds. If Farmer Kent sells his special watermelons for $2 a pound, how much money would he make for selling 18 watermelons of the same weight?
Answer: A single watermelon would sell for $2 x 23 = $46. 60 watermelons would sell for $46 x 18 = $828. The answer is 828.
[Question]Carla needs to dry-clean 80 pieces of laundry by noon. If she starts work at 8 AM, how many pieces of laundry does she need to clean per hour?
[Answer]First find how many hours Carla has to work: 12:00 - 8:00 = 4 hours. Then divide the total amount of laundry by the number of hours to find how many pieces Carla has to clean per hour: 80 pieces / 4 hours = 20 pieces / hour. The answer is 20.
Q: Paul eats a lot when he studies. He loves sandwiches and eats them at the same rate every three days. He eats 2 sandwiches the first day, then doubles that number of sandwiches for the second day. On the third day, he doubles the number of sandwiches he ate on the second day. How many sandwiches would Paul eat if he studied 6 days in a row?
A: Paul doubles the amount that he ate on the second day, so eats 2 x 2 = 4 sandwiches. For the third day, he doubles the number of sandwiches he ate on the second day, so eats 2 x 2 x 2 = 8 sandwiches. To get the total amount of sandwiches he ate over three days it's necessary to add up the amount he ate each day: 2 + 4 + 8 = 14 sandwiches. Since he eats 14 sandwiches every 3 days, then in 6 days he would eat 14 x 2 = 28 sandwiches in total. The answer is 28.
Question: Jane purchased 15 ice cream cones and 5 cups of pudding. Each ice cream cone cost $5 and each cup of pudding cost $2. How much more did Jane spend on ice cream than on pudding, in dollars?
Answer: The cost of 15 cones of ice cream was 15 $5 = $75. The cost of the 5 cups of pudding was 5 $2 = $10. Jane spent $75 - $10 = $65 more on ice cream than on pudding. The answer is 65.
[Question]There were 672 balloons that were either green, blue, yellow, or red. They were divided into equal groups and then Anya took half of the yellow ones home. How many balloons did Anya take home?
[Answer]672 / 4 = 168 balloons. 168 * (1 / 2) = 84 balloons. Anya took 84 balloons home. The answer is 84.
[Question]Matt can paint a house in 12 hours. Patty can paint the same house in one third the time. Rachel can paint the same house in 5 more than double the amount of hours as Patty. How long will it take Rachel to paint the house?
[Answer]
Patty: 12 / 3 = 4 hours. Rachel: 5 + 2(4) = 13 hours. The answer is 13.