Q: Carla works at a food bank and she currently has stocked up 2000 cans of food. One day, 500 people showed up and took 1 can of food each. Carla had to then restock 1500 more cans to keep up with demand. The next day, 1000 people showed up and took 2 cans of food each. Carla restocked again with 3000 cans of food this time. How many cans of food did Carla give away?
A: One day, 2000 - 500 = 1500 cans of food were left. It was then restocked to 1500 + 1500 = 3000 cans. 1000 * 2 = 2000 cans were taken the next day. 3000 - 2000 = 1000 cans were left. It was restocked once more to 1000 + 3000 = 4000 cans of food. Carla gave away 500 + 2000 = 2500 cans of food. The answer is 2500.
Question: Mary is paying her monthly garbage bill for a month with exactly four weeks. The garbage company charges Mary $10 per trash bin and $5 per recycling bin every week, and Mary has 2 trash bins and 1 recycling bin. They're giving her an 18% discount on the whole bill before fines for being elderly, but also charging her a $20 fine for putting inappropriate items in a recycling bin. How much is Mary's garbage bill?
Answer: First find how much Mary pays weekly for the trash bins: $10 / trash bin * 2 trash bins = $20. Then add this to the cost of the recycling bin: $20 + $5 = $25. Then multiply the week cost by the number of weeks per month to find the monthly cost: $25 / week * 4 weeks / month = $100 / month. Now calculate Mary's senior discount: 18% * $100 = $18. Now subtract the discount and add the fine to find the total monthly cost: $100 - $18 + $20 = $102. The answer is 102.
[Question]Carol gets a fixed $20 allowance each week. She can also earn $1.5 more dollars each week if she does extra chores. At the end of 10 weeks, she has 425 dollars. How many extra chores did she average each week?
[Answer]She earned $42.5 on average per week because 425 / 10 = 42.5. She earned $22.5 each week from extra chores because 42.5 - 20 = 22.5. She did 15 extra chores a week because 22.5 / 1.5 = 15. The answer is 15.
Q: There are 30 major league baseball stadiums. Zach has a goal to take his son to see at least one game at each one. He has calculated the average cost for them to travel and see a game will be $900 per stadium. Zach can save $1,500 per year for his baseball stadium trips. How many years will it take Zach to accomplish his goal?
A: The total cost would be $900 x 30 stadiums = $27,000. Dividing the total cost by the amount Zach saves per year, we get $27,000 / $1,500 / year = 18 years. The answer is 18.
Question: A train takes 2 hours longer to go an equal distance of a car. If the car and the train leave station A at the same time, and the car reaches station B 4.5 hours later, calculate the combined time the car and the train take to reach station B.
Answer: Since the train takes 2 hours longer to go an equal distance as the car, to reach station B, the train took 4.5 + 2 = 6.5 hours. Together, the train and the car take a total of 6.5 + 4.5 = 11 hours to travel from station A to station B. The answer is 11.
Q: Taylor and his friends decide to bring their pets together for a walk. 3 of his friends come first, each having twice as many pets as Taylor has. Another two of his friends have 2 pets each. If Taylor has 4 pets, what's the total number of pets they have together?
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If Taylor has 4 pets, and each of his first friends brings twice as much, the total for each friend is 4 * 2 = 8 pets. The total number of pets for Taylor's first friends is 8 * 3 = 24 pets. The other two friends brought two pets each, a total of 2 * 2 = 4 pets. The total number of pets will be Taylor's pets plus his friend's, which is 4 + 4 + 24 = 32 pets. The answer is 32.