[Question]Patricia and Geoffrey went fishing to feed their group of campers. They caught an eight-pound trout, six two-pound bass, and two twelve-pound salmon. If each person will eat two pounds of fish, how many campers can they feed?
[Answer]The bass weigh 6 * 2 = 12 pounds in all. The salmon weigh 2 * 12 = 24 pounds in all. The trout, bass, and salmon together weigh 8 + 12 + 24 = 44 pounds. Each camper will eat 2 pounds of fish, so Patricia and Jeffrey can feed 44 / 2 = 22 campers. The answer is 22.
Q: Due to the restrictions of Coronavirus, Mr. Trent, the local store owner, increased the prices of goods at his store by 15% each to make the same income he was making before. If buying an orange was $40 and the price of purchasing a mango was $50, calculate how much it costs in total now to buy ten oranges and ten mangoes at the new prices.
A: If the initial price of orange was $40, after the increase, the price rose by 15 / 100 * $40 = $6. The total price of buying an orange at the new price is $6 + $40 = $46. For the mango, the price increased by 15 / 100 * $50 = 7.5. The price of purchasing a mango at the new price is $50 + $7.5 = 57.5. To buy ten oranges it would cost $46 * 10 = $460. To buy 10 mangoes, it now costs $57.5 * 10 = $575. The total cost of buying ten oranges and ten mangoes is $575 + $460 = $1035. The answer is 1035.
Question: After Betty gave Stuart 40% of her marble collection, the number of marbles in Stuart's collection increased to 80. If Betty had 60 marbles, how many marbles did Stuart have initially?
Answer: If Betty had 60 marbles, she gave Stuart 40 / 100 * 60 = 24 marbles. Since the number of marbles in Stuart's collection increased to 80 after Betty gave him 24 marbles, the number of marbles he initially had is 80 - 24 = 56. The answer is 56.
[Question]There are 15 cats in a shelter. One-third were adopted, and were replaced with twice the amount that were adopted. Later on, twice as many dogs showed up as there are cats. How many total animals are there in the shelter?
[Answer]15 / 3 = 5 cats were adopted out of 15. There were 15 - 5 = 10 cats left. 5 * 2 = 10 more cats were added. This makes 10 + 10 = 20 cats in the shelter. 20 * 2 = 40 dogs came into the shelter. There are now 20 + 40 = 60 animals in the shelter. The answer is 60.
Q: A farmer living in the countryside has a certain number of children. One day, they followed him to the farm, each one with a bag to collect harvested apples. At the end of the day, each bag was filled with 15 apples each. On their way back home, 2 of the children have eaten 4 apples each and another child sold 7 of his apples. If they had a total of 60 apples left by the time they got home, how many children does the farmer have?
A: 2 children sold 4 apples each which gives 2 * 4 = 8 apples. Another child gave out an additional 7 apples making 8 + 7 = 15 apples removed from the total. There were 60 apples left after these, so the original total must have been 15 + 60 = 75 apples. Each child collected 15 apples so there are 75 / 15 = 5 children. The answer is 5.
Question: Bea and Dawn both have a lemonade stand. Bea sells her lemonade at 25 cents while Dawn sells hers at 28 cents. If Bea sold 10 glasses and Dawn sold 8 glasses, how much more money (in cents) did Bea earn than Dawn?
Answer:
Bea's sales amount to $0.25 / glass x 10 glasses = 250 cents. Dawn's sales amount to $0.28 / glass x 8 glasses = 224 cents. So, Bea earned $2.50 - $2.24 = 26 cents more than Dawn. The answer is 26.