Question: Gabby planted a watermelon vine, a peach tree, and two plum trees in the spring. Over the summer, the plants grew and produced fruit. She only got one watermelon to grow, but she got twelve more peaches than that, and three times that number of plums. How many pieces of fruit did Gabby get to pick that summer?
Answer: Gabby's peach tree grew 12 + 1 = 13 peaches. Her plum trees grew 13 * 3 = 39 plums. Thus, Gabby got 1 + 13 + 39 = 53 pieces of fruit to pick. The answer is 53.
[Question]Tamtam collected 65 shells in total. She got 13 purple shells, 8 pink shells, 18 yellow shells, and 12 blue shells. The remaining shells are color orange. How many orange shells are there?
[Answer]Tamtam has a total of 13 + 8 + 18 + 12 = 51 shells that are not orange. Therefore, Tamtam has a total of 65 51 = 14 orange shells. The answer is 14.
Q: Apples used to cost $1.6 per pound. The price got raised 25%. How much does it cost to buy 2 pounds of apples for each person in a 4 member family?
A: The price increase raised the price by 1.6 * .25 = $.4. So each pound of apples cost 1.6 + .4 = $2. 2 * 4 = 8 pounds of apples are bought. So the apples cost 8 * 2 = $16. The answer is 16.
Question: Ginger likes to make cakes for every holiday for people. She has 2 children, each of whom she bakes a cake for on their birthdays, Christmas, Easter, and Halloween. She has a husband for whom she makes a cake on these same holidays, as well as on their anniversary and Valentine's Day. Lastly, she makes both her parents cakes as well, but only for their birthdays since they live far away. How many cakes does she make in 10 years?
Answer: Ginger has 2 children whom she bakes for 4 times a year, for 2 * 4 = 8 cakes. She makes her husband 6 cakes a year. She makes each of her 2 parents a cake for 2 * 1 = 2 cakes. On a yearly basis, she therefore makes 8 + 6 + 2 = 16 cakes. In 10 years, she would make 16 * 10 = 160 cakes. The answer is 160.
[Question]Jerry charges $20 to pierce someone's nose and 50% more to pierce their ears. If he pierces 6 noses and 9 ears, how much money does he make?
[Answer]First find how much more Jerry charges to pierce one person's ears than their nose: $20 * 50% = $10. Then add that amount to the cost of nose piercing to find the total cost: $10 + $20 = $30. Then multiply that price by the number of ears he pierces to find his total earnings from ear - piercing: $30 / ear * 9 ears = $270. Then multiply the price of nose - piercing by the number of noses pierced: $20 / nose * 6 noses = $120. Then add the money from nose - piercing to the money from ear - piercing to find Jerry's total income: $120 + $270 = $390. The answer is 390.
[Question]A bird watcher records the number of birds he sees each day. One Monday he sees 70 birds. On Tuesday he sees half as many birds as he did on Monday. On Wednesday he sees 8 more birds than he did on Tuesday. How many total birds did the bird watcher see from Monday to Wednesday?
[Answer]
Monday:70. Tuesday:70 / 2 = 35. Wednesday:35 + 8 = 43. Total:70 + 35 + 43 = 148 birds. The answer is 148.