Q: Mark has two dozen eggs to split with his three siblings. How many eggs does each person get to eat if they all eat the same amount?
A: There are 24 eggs because 2 x 12 = 24. There are four eaters because 1 + 3 = 4. They get 6 eggs each because 24 / 4 = 6. The answer is 6.
Question: There were a total of 50 guests in a movie screening of which half of the guests are women, 15 are men, and the rest are children. In the middle of the movie, 1/5 of the men and 4 children left. How many people stayed?
Answer: Being women half of the guests, there were 50 / 2 = 25 women in the movie screening. Adding the 15 men to the number of women guests, there were 25 + 15 = 40 men and women. From a total of 50 guests, 50 - 40 = 10 were children. Knowing 1 / 5 of the men left, 15 / 5 = 3 men left. Thus, 3 men + 4 children = 7 people left in all. Therefore, 50 - 7 = 43 people stayed. The answer is 43.
[Question]Barney washes his kitchen towels once a week. He owns eighteen towels and uses two at a time that he changes to clean towels daily. He missed one week of laundry. How many days the following week will Barney not have clean towels?
[Answer]Barney uses 2 clean towels every day, so he uses 2 * 7 = 14 towels a week. He missed one week of laundry, so he would need 2 * 14 = 28 towels for 2 weeks. He owns 18 towels, so he has 28 - 18 = 10 less than he needs. Thus, Barney will not have clean towels on 10 / 2 = 5 days. The answer is 5.
Q: In Hawaii, they normally get an average of 2 inches of rain a day. With 100 days left in the year, they've gotten 430 inches of rain. How many inches on average do they need to finish the year with the normal average?
A: They need 730 inches of rain a year to average 2 inches a day because 365 x 2 = 730. They need 300 more inches because 730 - 430 = 300. They need 3 inches a day because 300 / 100 = 3. The answer is 3.
Question: Derek has $960 to buy his books for the semester. He spends half of that on his textbooks, and he spends a quarter of what is left on his school supplies. What is the amount of money Derek has left?
Answer: Amount spent on textbooks is 960 / 2 = 480 dollars. Amount spent on school supplies is 480 / 4 = 120 dollars. Amount Derek has left 960 - 480 - 120 = 360 dollars. The answer is 360.
Q: Marge planted 23 seeds in her garden. Five of the seeds never grew into plants. A third of the remaining seeds grew, but the plants were eaten by squirrels and rabbits. A third of the number of uneaten plants were strangled by weeds. Marge pulled two weeds, but liked the flowers on one weed and let the plant grow as part of her garden. How many plants did Marge end up with?
A:
Marge had 23 - 5 = 18 seeds grow into plants. Rabbits ate 18 / 3 = 6 plants. There were 18 - 6 = 12 plants left. Weeds strangled 12 / 3 = 4 plants. She had 12 - 4 = 8 plants left. Marge kept 1 weed, so she ended up with 8 + 1 = 9 plants. The answer is 9.