[Question]You can buy 4 apples or 1 watermelon for the same price. You bought 36 fruits evenly split between oranges, apples and watermelons, and the price of 1 orange is $0.50. How much does 1 apple cost if your total bill was $66?
[Answer]If 36 fruits were evenly split between 3 types of fruits, then I bought 36 / 3 = 12 units of each fruit. If 1 orange costs $0.50 then 12 oranges will cost $0.50 * 12 = $6. If my total bill was $66 and I spent $6 on oranges then I spent $66 - $6 = $60 on the other 2 fruit types. Assuming the price of watermelon is W, and knowing that you can buy 4 apples for the same price and that the price of one apple is A, then 1W = 4A. If we know we bought 12 watermelons and 12 apples for $60, then we know that $60 = 12W + 12A. Knowing that 1W = 4A, then we can convert the above to $60 = 12(4A) + 12A. $60 = 48A + 12A. $60 = 60A. Then we know the price of one apple (A) is $60 / 60 = $1. The answer is 1.
Q: John runs a telethon to raise money. For the first 12 hours, he generates $5000 per hour. The remaining 14 hours, he generates 20% more per hour. How much total money does he make?
A: He gets 12 * 5000 = $60000 for the first 12 hours. For the next 14 hours, he gets 5000 * .2 = $1000 more per hour. So he gets 5000 + 1000 = $6000 per hour. So he gets 6000 * 14 = $84000. So in total, he makes 84000 + 60000 = $144,000. The answer is 144000.
Question: Unique is making biscuits. She has a sheet of dough that is 12 inches by 12 inches. She makes square biscuits and each biscuit is 3 inches by 3 inches. How many biscuits can she make with this dough?
Answer: She has 144 square inches of dough because 12 times 12 equals 144. Each biscuit uses 9 square inches of dough because 3 times 3 equals 9. She can make 16 biscuits because 144 divided by 9 equals 16. The answer is 16.
[Question]Harvey and his friend Sam decided to run a footrace in their school track field to see who was better at running. While at it, Harvey runs 8 miles more than his friend Sam, who runs a total of 12 miles. Calculate the total number of miles the two friends run together.
[Answer]If Harvey ran 8 more miles, then he ran a total of 12 miles + 8 miles = 20 miles. The two friends ran a total of 20 miles + 12 miles = 32 miles. The answer is 32.
Q: Katrina saw an ad that said if she signed up for her local recycling program, she could earn $5.00. When she signed up, they told her for every friend that she referred, the friend would receive $5.00 and she would receive another $5.00 per friend. That day, she had 5 friends sign up and another 7 friends by the end of the week. How much money in total did she and her friends make?
A: She signed up 5 friends, then an additional 7 for a total of 5 + 7 = 12 friends. Each friend received $5 so 12 * 5 = $60.00. And she received $5 for each friend so 12 * 5 = $60.00. Her initial reward was $5 and her friends made $60 for signing up and she received $60 when they signed up for a total of 5 + 60 + 60 = $125.00. The answer is 125.
Question: Denny, an Instagram influencer, has 100000 followers and gets 1000 new followers every day. How many followers will he have if 20000 people unfollowed him in a year?
Answer:
The total number of new followers after a year is 365 * 1000 = 365000 followers. His total number of followers in a year is 100000 + 365000 = 465000 followers. If 20000 people unfollowed him, the total number of followers remaining is 465000 - 20000 = 445000 followers. The answer is 445000.