[Question]Peter is raking leaves. It takes him 15 minutes to rake 3 bags of leaves. If he keeps raking at the same rate, how long will it take him to rake 8 bags?
[Answer]We are trying to figure out how long it will take Peter to rake 8 bags of leaves, so we'll call that Y. And we know Peter can rake 3 bags of leaves / 15 minutes = 8 bags of leaves / Y. Next, we will multiply to find the cross - products. 3 x Y = 15 x 8 or 3Y = 120. We want to get figure out Y, so we need to get it by itself by dividing by 3, like this: 3Y / 3 = 120 / 3 or Y = 40 minutes. The answer is 40.

[Question]If Brooke adds eight balloons to his current 12, and Tracy adds 24 to her current 6, how many balloons will they have in total if Tracy pops half of her balloons?
[Answer]When Brooke gets twelve more balloons, his total becomes 12 + 8 = 20. When Tracy adds 24 more balloons to her 6, her total number of balloons becomes 24 + 6 = 30. When half of Tracy's balloons pop, she remains with 1 / 2 * 30 = 15. The combined total balloons for the two is 15 + 20 = 35 balloons. The answer is 35.

[Question]It is recommended that men should consume no more than 150 calories of added sugar per day. Mark took a soft drink in the afternoon that contained 2500 calories, 5% of which was from added sugar. Then he bought some bars of candy which had 25 calories of added sugar each. If he eventually exceeded the recommended intake of added sugar by 100%, how many bars of candy did he take?
[Answer]He consumed 2500 calories, 5% of which is added sugar to give 2500 * (5 / 100) = 125 calories of added sugar. He exceeded the recommended intake of 150 calories by 100% for a total consumption of 150 + (150(100 / 100)) = $300. This means he took in 300 - 125 = 175 calories from candy alone. Each candy had 25 calories so 175 calories which means he consumed 175 / 25 = 7 bars?. The answer is 7.

[Question]When Jack traveled to Canada, he had to wait 20 hours to get through customs, plus 14 days in coronavirus quarantine. How many hours total did Jack have to wait?
[Answer]
First convert the quarantine wait time to hours by multiplying the number of days by the number of hours in a day: 14 days * 24 hours / day = 336 hours. Then add the time Jack spent waiting in customs to the quarantine time: 336 hours + 20 hours = 356 hours. The answer is 356.