[Question]Maria buys a large bar of French soap that lasts her for 2 months. She spends $8.00 per bar of soap. If she wants to stock up for the entire year, how much will she spend on soap?
[Answer]1 bar of soap will last for 2 months and there are 12 months in 1 year so she needs 12 / 2 = 6 bars of soap. Each bar of soap is $8.00 and she needs 6 bars so that's a total of 8 * 6 = $48.00. The answer is 48.

[Question]Ruby is taking dance lessons. They cost $75 for 10 classes in one pack. She can add additional classes at the price of 1/3 more than the average price of a class on the lesson in the pack. if she takes 13 total classes, how much does she pay?
[Answer]The classes in the pack cost $7.5 each because 75 / 10 = 7.5. An additional class costs $10 because 7.5 x (1 + (1 / 3)) = 10. She buys 3 extra classes because 13 - 10 = 3. Her three additional classes cost $30 because 3 x 10 = 30. Her total cost is $105 because 75 + 30 = 105. The answer is 105.

[Question]Brian loves watching animal videos online. He watches a 4-minute video of cats. He then watches a video twice as long as the cat video involving dogs. He finishes up his video watching for the day by watching a video on gorillas that's twice as long as the previous two videos combined. How many minutes does Brian spend watching animal videos?
[Answer]Brian begins by watching a 4 - minute video, and since the second video is twice as long that means the second video is 4 * 2 = 8 minutes. The first two videos combined therefore for a 4 + 8 = 12 minute run time. Since the third video is twice as long as the first two videos put together, that means it is 12 * 2 = 24 minutes in length. The total length of time spent is therefore 24 + 12 = 36 minutes. The answer is 36.

[Question]At Hank's cafe, he sells big stack pancakes which have 5 pancakes and short stack pancakes which have 3 pancakes. If 9 customers order the short stack and 6 customers order the big stack, how many pancakes does Hank need to make?
[Answer]
For the short stack orders, Hank needs to make 3 x 9 = 27 pancakes. For the big stack orders, he needs to make 5 x 6 = 30 pancakes. Altogether, Hank needs to make 27 + 30 = 57 pancakes. The answer is 57.