Q: Albert has to run 99 meters in gym class. The track is 9 meters around. He has already run 6 times around it. Once he finishes, how many more complete laps will he have made around the track?
A: Albert has to run 11 laps in total because 99 / 9 = 11. He has 5 more complete laps to run because 11 - 6 = 5. The answer is 5.
Question: Max can trade 3 coconuts for a crab and 6 crabs for a goat. If he has 342 coconuts and he wants to convert all of them into goats, how many goats will he have?
Answer: First find the number of crabs Max can get by dividing the number of coconuts by the exchange rate with crabs: 342 coconuts / 3 coconuts / crab = 114 crabs. Then divide the number of crabs by the exchange rate with goats: 114 crabs / 6 crabs / goat = 19 goats. The answer is 19.
[Question]Every day, Billie bakes 3 pumpkin pies for 11 days and puts them in the refrigerator. It takes 2 cans of whipped cream to cover 1 pie. If Tiffany comes over and eats 4 pies, how many cans of whipped cream does Billie need to buy to cover the remaining pies?
[Answer]In total Billie bakes 3 x 11 = 33 pies. After Tiffany eats the pies, this many pies are in the refrigerator: 33 - 4 = 29 pies. She needs to buy this many cans of whipped cream 29 x 2 = 58 cans. The answer is 58.
Q: 4 students participated in a 200m race. If the average completion time of the last three students was 35 seconds, and the average completion time of all four runners was 30 seconds, how long (in seconds) did it take the student who came first to finish the race?
A: The last 3 students had an average completion time of 35 seconds so the sum of their completion times was 3 * 35 = 105 seconds. All 4 students (now including the student who came first) had an average completion time of 30 seconds, meaning the sum of their completion times is 4 * 30 = 120 seconds. The student who came first spent 120 - 105 = 15 seconds in the race. The answer is 15.
Question: The total number of lions in a park is twice the number of leopards in the same park. The number of elephants is half the combined number of lions and leopards. Calculate the total population of the three animals in the park if the number of lions is 200.
Answer: If there are 200 lions in the park, which is twice the number of leopards in the park, there are 200 / 2 = 100 leopards in the park. The total population of lions and leopards in the park is 200 lions + 100 leopards = 300. The number of elephants in the park is 1 / 2 the total population of lions and leopards; thus, there are 300 / 2 = 150 elephants in the park. There are a total of 150 + 300 = 450 animals in the park. The answer is 450.
Q: Brittany has 3 gerbils: Puffy, Muffy, and Scruffy. Puffy weighs 5 ounces more than Muffy. Muffy weighs 3 ounces less than Scruffy. If Scruffy weighs 12 ounces, how much would the scale indicate, in ounces, if Brittany put Puffy and Muffy on the scale?
A:
Muffy weighs 12 - 3 = 9 ounces. Puffy weighs 5 + 9 = 14 ounces. If Brittany weighs both Puffy and Muffy, the scale would read 9 + 14 = 23 ounces. The answer is 23.