[Question]Tony drinks 72 ounces of water per day. He decides that to stop wasting plastic, he will buy a reusable metal bottle. If he buys an 84-ounce water bottle, how many times will he fill it each week?
[Answer]He drinks 504 ounces of water per week because 72 x 7 = 504. He will need to fill it 6 times because 504 / 84 = 6. The answer is 6.
Q: A cooler is filled with 24 cans of cherry soda and orange pop. If there are twice as many cans of orange pop as there are of cherry soda, how many cherry sodas are there?
A: There are C cans of cherry soda in the cooler. There are twice as many cans of orange pop, so there are 2C cans of orange pop in the cooler. In all, there are C + 2C = 3C = 24 cans in the cooler. Therefore, there are C = 24 / 3 = 8 cans of cherry soda in the cooler. The answer is 8.
Question: If we assume all thirty 4-wheel drive cars in the parking lot have their spare tire with them, how many tires are in the parking lot?
Answer: Each car has 4 tires + 1 spare = 5 tires. If there are 30 cars in the parking lot and each one has 5 tires, then the total number of tires is 30 * 5 = 150 tires. The answer is 150.
[Question]One ticket to the underground costs $3. In one minute, the metro sells an average of 5 such tickets. What will be the earnings from the tickets in 6 minutes?
[Answer]During one minute the metro sells 5 tickets, so they earn 5 * 3 = $15. So in 6 minutes they would earn 15 * 6 = $90. The answer is 90.
Q: Allie picked 44 wildflowers. Thirteen of the flowers were yellow and white, seventeen of the flowers were red and yellow, and 14 of the flowers were red and white. How many more flowers contained the color red than contained the color white?
A: 13 were yellow and white, and 14 red and white, for a total of 13 + 14 = 27 flowers containing the color white. 17 were red and yellow, and 14 were red and white, for a total of 17 + 14 = 31 flowers containing the color red. Thus, there were 31 - 27 = 4 more flowers that contained the color red than the color white. The answer is 4.
Question: In a town where 60% of the citizens own a pet, half own a dog and 30 own a cat. How many citizens are in the town?
Answer:
Half the pet - owners have a cat because 1 - 1 / 2 = 1 / 2. There are 60 pet owners because 30 / (1 / 2) = 60. The town has 100 citizens because 60 / .6 = 100. The answer is 100.