Q: A baseball team has averaged 15 hits per game over their first 5 games. There are 11 players on the team. Their best player has 25 total hits. If the other players continue their average over the next 6 games, how many hits will each player average across the 6 games in total?
A: The best player averages 5 hits a game because 25 / 5 = 5. The rest of the team averages 10 hits a game because 15 - 5 = 10. The rest of the players average 1 hit a game because 10 / 10 = 1. They will average 6 hits per player over the next 6 games because 6 x 1 = 6. The answer is 6.
Question: Jonas is trying to expand his wardrobe. He has 20 pairs of socks, 5 pairs of shoes, 10 pairs of pants and 10 t-shirts. How many pairs of socks does he need to buy to double the number of individual items in his wardrobe?
Answer: First, we must recognize that all pairs of shoes and socks are actually two items each, whereas the pants and the t - shirts are individual items. Therefore there are 20 * 2 = 40 individual socks in 20 pairs of socks. Similarly, there are 5 * 2 = 10 individual shoes in 5 pairs of shoes. Therefore, Jonas has 40 + 10 + 10 + 10 = 70 individual items in his collection. To double this number, we perform 70 * 2 = 140. This means we need 140 - 70 = 70 new items to double the size. Since there are 2 individual socks in each pair, we take 70 / 2 = 35 new pairs of socks. The answer is 35.
[Question]Salem loves to write poems, and she always stores her poem in a creativity box kept safely in her home library. Last week, she created a poem with 20 stanzas. If each stanza has 10 lines, and each line has 8 words, calculate the total number of words in the poem.
[Answer]If each line that Salem created in her poem has 8 words, the total number of words in a stanza, which is 10 lines, is 8 words / line * 10 lines / stanza = 80 words / stanza. With 20 stanzas, each containing 80 words per stanza, the total is 80 words / stanza * 20 stanzas = 1600 words in all the stanzas(poem). The answer is 1600.
Q: The new pad of paper has 120 pages. Sammy uses 25% of the pages for his science project, and another 10 pages for his math homework. How many pages remain in the pad?
A: He used 0.25 * 120 = 30 on science. There were 120 - 30 = 90 pages left. And then he has 90 - 10 = 80 after math. The answer is 80.
Question: Arthur has $200 in his wallet. He spends four-fifths of that. How much does he have left?
Answer: Arthur spent 4 / 5 * $200 = $160. Thus he has $200 - $160 = $40 remaining. The answer is 40.
Q: Tom Sawyer has tricked his friends into whitewashing Aunt Polly's 100-foot fence. His first friend, Ben, whitewashed 10 feet. His second friend Billy whitewashed a fifth of the remaining fence. A third friend, Johnny, whitewashed a third of the fence that was left after that. How much of the fence still needs to be whitewashed?
A:
It's a 100 - foot fence, and Ben whitewashed 10 feet, so there are 100 - 10 = 90 feet left after Ben is done. Billy whitewashed a fifth of that, or 90 / 5 = 18 feet. There is now 90 - 18 = 72 feet of fence left. Johnny whitewashes a third of that, or 72 / 3 = 24 feet. That leaves 72 - 24 = 48 feet of fence left to be whitewashed. The answer is 48.