Q: Rita is reading a five-chapter book with 95 pages. Each chapter has three pages more than the previous one. How many pages does the first chapter have?
A: Let P be the number of pages in the first chapter. The second chapter has P + 3 pages. The third chapter has P + 3 + 3 = P + 6 pages. The fourth chapter has P + 6 + 3 = P + 9 pages. The fifth chapter has P + 9 + 3 = P + 12 pages. The whole book has P + 3 + P + 6 + P + 9 + P + 12 = 5P + 30 = 95 pages. Thus, without the 30 extra pages from additional chapters, 5P = 95 - 30 = 65 pages. Therefore, the first chapter had P = 65 / 5 = 13 pages. The answer is 13.
Question: Shanna planted 6 tomato plants, 2 eggplant plants, and 4 pepper plants in her summer garden. Half of her tomato plants and one pepper plant died. The remaining plants each gave her 7 vegetables. How many vegetables did she have in all to harvest?
Answer: Shanna had 6 / 2 = 3 surviving tomato plants. She had 4 - 1 = 3 surviving pepper plants. Thus, she had 3 + 3 + 2 = 8 surviving vegetable plants. Each gave her 7 vegetables, so she had 8 * 7 = 56 vegetables to harvest in all. The answer is 56.
[Question]Super Clean Car Wash Company cleans 80 cars per day. They make $5 per car washed. How much money will they make in 5 days?
[Answer]Each day they will make 80 $5 = $400. They will make $400 5 = $2000 in 5 days. The answer is 2000.
Q: Toby is in a juggling contest with a friend. The winner is whoever gets the most objects rotated around in 4 minutes. Toby has 5 baseballs and each one makes 80 rotations. His friend has 4 apples and each one makes 101 rotations. How many total rotations of objects are made by the winner?
A: Toby gets 400 full rotations because 5 x 80 = 400. His friend get 404 rotations because 4 x 101 = 404. The winner rotated 404 objects because 404 > 400. The answer is 404.
Question: Since Jason started investing, he has earned the same amount he invested twice over in 5 months. If Jason's investment currently is worth $90, how much has he been earning per month from his investment assuming he has been earning an equal amount of returns each month?
Answer: Let's say Jason invested x amount of money. Since Jason started investing, he has earned the same amount he invested twice over in 5 months, meaning he has earned x + 2 * x = $90. This evaluates to 3x = $90. The total amount of money that Jason invested is x = $90 / 3. Jason invested x = $30. The total amount of money that Jason has earned from his investments is $90 - $30 = $60. If he earned an equal amount of money from the investment in five months, his monthly returns is 60 / 5 = $12. The answer is 12.
Q: An adult panda can eat 138 pounds of bamboo each day. A baby panda can eat 50 pounds of bamboo a day. How many pounds of bamboo will the pandas eat in a week?
A:
An adult panda will eat 138 pounds of bamboo * 7 days = 966 pounds. A baby panda will eat 50 pounds * 7 days = 350 pounds. Total the pandas will eat 966 pounds + 350 = 1316 pounds of bamboo. The answer is 1316.