Question: To make pizza, together with other ingredients, Kimber needs 10 cups of water, 16 cups of flour, and 1/2 times as many teaspoons of salt as the number of cups of flour. Calculate the combined total number of cups of water, flour, and teaspoons of salt that she needs to make the pizza.
Answer: To make the pizza, Kimber half as many teaspoons of salt as the number of cups of flour, meaning she needs 1 / 2 * 16 = 8 teaspoons of salt. The total number of cups of flour and teaspoons of salt she needs is 8 + 16 = 24. She also needs 10 cups of water, which means the total number of cups of water and flour and teaspoons of salt she needs is 24 + 10 = 34. The answer is 34.
[Question]There is very little car traffic on Happy Street. During the week, most cars pass it on Tuesday - 25. On Monday, 20% less than on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, 2 more cars than on Monday. On Thursday and Friday, it is about 10 cars each day. On the weekend, traffic drops to 5 cars per day. How many cars travel down Happy Street from Monday through Sunday?
[Answer]On Monday there are 20 / 100 * 25 = 5 cars passing the street less than on Tuesday. So on Monday, there are 25 - 5 = 20 cars on Happy Street. On Wednesday, there are 20 + 2 = 22 cars on this street. On Thursday and Friday, there is a total of 10 * 2 = 20 cars passing. On the weekend 5 * 2 = 10 cars are passing. So from Monday through Sunday, there are 20 + 25 + 22 + 20 + 10 = 97 cars traveling down the street. The answer is 97.
Q: Mason is trying to download a 880 MB game to his phone. After downloading 310 MB, his Internet connection slows to 3 MB/minute. How many more minutes will it take him to download the game?
A: First find how many MB are left to download: 880 MB - 310 MB = 570 MB. Then divide that number by the download speed to find the download time: 570 MB / 3 MB / minute = 190 minutes. The answer is 190.
Question: James creates a media empire. He creates a movie for $2000. Each DVD cost $6 to make. He sells it for 2.5 times that much. He sells 500 movies a day for 5 days a week. How much profit does he make in 20 weeks?
Answer: He sold each DVD for 6 * 2.5 = $15. So he makes a profit of 15 - 6 = $9. So each day he makes a profit of 9 * 500 = $4500. So he makes 4500 * 5 = $22,500. He makes 22,500 * 20 = $450,000. Then after the cost of creating the movie he has a profit of 450,000 - 2000 = $448,000. The answer is 448000.
[Question]Jeremy loves to play Scrabble. He once played a three-letter word on a triple word score to earn thirty points. If before the word score was tripled, the first and third letters were each valued at one point apiece, how much was the middle letter valued at before the word score was tripled?
[Answer]Since the word score after being tripled was 30 points, then the word score before tripling was 30 / 3 = 10 points. If before the word score was tripled, the first and third letters were each valued at one point apiece, then the value of the middle letter was 10 - 1 - 1 = 8 points. The answer is 8.
[Question]Jimmy decides to make sandwiches for a picnic. He makes 8 sandwiches in total, using two slices of bread each. How many packs of bread does he need to buy to make these sandwiches, assuming he starts with no bread and each pack has 4 slices of bread in it?
[Answer]
First, we need to determine how many slices of bread Jimmy will use to make the sandwiches. We determine this by performing 8 * 2 = 16 slices of bread needed. We then divide the number of slices needed by the number of slices per bread pack, performing 16 / 4 = 4 packs of bread needed. The answer is 4.