Question: Mitch made 20 macarons. Joshua made 6 more macarons than Mitch but half as many macarons as Miles. Renz made 1 fewer than 3/4 as many macarons as Miles. If they will combine their macarons to give them to the kids on the street, how many kids would receive 2 macarons each?
Answer: Joshua made 20 + 6 = 26 macarons. Miles made 26 x 2 = 52 macarons. Three - fourths of Miles' macarons is 52 x 3 / 4 = 39. So Renz made 39 - 1 = 38 macarons. The four of them have a total of 20 + 26 + 52 + 38 = 136 macarons combined. Thus, 136 / 2 = 68 kids would receive 2 macarons each. The answer is 68.
[Question]Josie received $50 as a gift. She plans to buy two cassette tapes that cost $9 each and a headphone set that costs $25. How much money will she have left?
[Answer]The cassette tapes will cost 2 9 = $18. She spends 18 + 25 = $43 in total. Josie will have 50 - 43 = $7 left. The answer is 7.
Q: Rocky boxed 190 fights in his career. 50 percent of his fights were knockouts, and 20 percent of the knockouts were in the first round. How many knockouts did Rocky have in the first round?
A: Knockouts:190(.50) = 95. First Round:95(.2) = 19. The answer is 19.
Question: Tracy has been collecting novels from her friends to donate to the Children For The Future charity organization. In the first week she collects a certain number of books. In the next five weeks, she collects ten times as many books as she did in the first week. How many books did she collect in the first week if she has 99 books now?
Answer: Let's say the number of books she had in the first week is x. After six weeks, Tracy has x + x * 10 = 99 books. Combining like terms, we get 11x = 99. Dividing both sides by 11, we find that the number of books Tracy had in the first week is x = 9. The answer is 9.
[Question]Sheena is sewing the bridesmaid's dresses for her sister's wedding. She can sew one dress in 12 hours. There are 5 bridesmaids in the wedding. If Sheena sews the dresses 4 hours each week, how many weeks will it take her to complete them?
[Answer]It will take Sheena 12 hours x 5 bridesmaids = 60 hours to sew the dresses. It will take her 60 hours / 4 hours = 15 weeks. The answer is 15.
[Question]Jill spends time every day talking to her boyfriend on the phone. The first day of the week she spends 5 minutes on the phone with her boyfriend. Each of the following days she spends twice as much time talking on the phone as the day before. After the 5th day her parents take the phone away from her because she was on it too long. How much time did Jill spend talking to her boyfriend that week?
[Answer]
Jill starts off spending 5 minutes on the phone, and the following day she spends double that 5 minutes for 5 * 2 = 10 minutes. The following day Jill spends double the previous day's total of 10 minutes on the phone, for 10 * 2 = 20 minutes. On the fourth day, Jill spends double the previous day's total of 20 minutes on the phone, for 20 * 2 = 40 minutes. On the fifth and final day, Jill spends double the previous day's total of 40 minutes on the phone, for 40 * 2 = 80 minutes. All told, Jill spends 5 + 10 + 20 + 40 + 80 = 155 minutes on the phone over 5 days. The answer is 155.