Question: 3 families of 4 people shared a vacation rental for 7 days. Everyone uses 1 oversized beach towel a day before getting a new one. The washing machine can hold 14 oversized beach towels per load. How many loads of laundry will it take to wash all the oversized beach towels?
Answer: There are 3 families of 4 meaning there are 3 * 4 = 12 people in the vacation rental. They all use 1 oversized beach towel a day so they use 1 * 12 = 12 towels a day. They use 12 towels a day for 7 days so in one week they use 12 * 7 = 84 beach towels. The washing machine can only hold 14 towels and they have 84 towels to wash which means there are 84 / 14 = 6 loads of laundry. The answer is 6.
[Question]Brianna started out with a bag of 24 marbles. She lost four marbles through a hole in the bag. Then, she gave away twice as many marbles as she had lost through the hole in the bag. Finally, her dog ate half as many marbles as Brianna had lost through the hole in the bag. How many marbles did Brianna have remaining?
[Answer]Brianna gave away twice as many marbles as she had lost, or a total of 2 * 4 = 8 marbles. Her dog ate half as many marbles as Brianna had lost through the hole in the bag, or 4 / 2 = 2 marbles. If she started with 24 marbles, then the number of marbles remaining is 24 - 4 - 8 - 2 = 10 marbles. The answer is 10.
Q: Janice gave all three dozens of pebbles from her trip to her friends. Each of her friends got 4 pebbles. How many friends received pebbles?
A: Three dozens of pebbles are equal to 3 x 12 = 36 pebbles. So, 36 / 4 = 9 friends received pebbles. The answer is 9.
Question: Meadow has a business that sells baby diapers to her local townspeople. She orders 30 boxes of diapers containing 40 packs weekly, with each pack having 160 diapers. She sells each diaper for $5. How much money is Meadow making from selling all her diapers?
Answer: When she orders 30 boxes, the total number of packs in the boxes is 30 * 40 = 1200 packs. If a pack has 160 diapers, 1200 packs contain 1200 * 160 = 192000 diapers. After selling all the diapers, Meadow gets 192000 * $5 = $960000. The answer is 960000.
[Question]Every bedtime, Juwella reads a book. Three nights ago, she read 15 pages. Two nights ago she read twice that many pages, while last night she read 5 pages more than the previous night. She promised to read the remaining pages of the book tonight. If the book has 100 pages, how many pages will she read tonight?
[Answer]Juwella read 15 x 2 = 30 pages two nights ago. She read 30 + 5 = 35 pages last night. She read a total of 15 + 30 + 35 = 80 pages for three nights. Thus, she needs to read 100 - 80 = 20 pages tonight to finish the book. The answer is 20.
[Question]Ben's hockey team is 60% boys and the rest are girls. Half the girls are juniors and the other half are seniors. If the team has 50 players, how many junior girls are there?
[Answer]
The team is 40% girls because 100 - 60 = 40. The team has 20 girls because 50 x .4 = 20. The team has 10 junior girls because 20 / 2 = 10. The answer is 10.