[Question]A one-year subscription to a newspaper is offered with a 45% discount. How much does the discounted subscription cost if a subscription normally costs $80?
[Answer]We calculate first the discount: 80 * 45 / 100 = $36. So, the discounted subscription amounts to 80 36 = $44. The answer is 44.
Q: Naomi is doing the wash. First she makes piles of different types, with one pile for towels, one for sheets, and one for clothes that need to be washed on the gentle cycle. The clothes take 30 minutes to wash. The towels take twice as long as the clothes to wash. The sheets take 15 minutes less time to wash than the towels. How many minutes total will it take for Naomi to wash everything?
A: The clothes take 30 minutes to wash and the towels take twice as long, 30 x 2 = 60 minutes to wash the towels. The sheets take 15 minutes less than the towels, 60 - 15 = 45 minutes to wash the sheets. It takes 30 minutes + 60 minutes + 45 minutes = 135 minutes to wash everything. The answer is 135.
Question: Berry wants to make sure he reads an average of 50 pages a day. This week he read 43 pages on Sunday, 65 pages on Monday, and 28 pages on Tuesday. He had a soccer game and fell asleep early on Wednesday so he read nothing. On Thursday he read 70 pages, and on Friday he read 56 pages. How many pages does he have to read on Saturday to reach his goal?
Answer: He has to read 350 pages a week because 7 x 50 = 350. He has read 262 pages because 43 + 65 + 28 + 70 + 56 = 262. He has to read 88 pages on Saturday because 350 - 262 = 88. The answer is 88.
[Question]Flora has been experiencing frequent fractures. Dr. Juan has asked her to strengthen her bones by drinking 105 gallons of milk within 3 weeks. Flora thinks that drinking 3 gallons of milk daily will be enough, but her brother says she'll still need to drink more. To fulfill Dr. Juan's requirement, how many more gallons must Flora drink daily?
[Answer]3 weeks translate to 3 * 7 days = 21 days. To meet Dr. Juan's recommendation would mean drinking 105 / 21 = 5 gallons daily. This means that Flora must drink 5 - 3 = 2 more gallons daily. The answer is 2.
Q: Colton had 72 dolphin stickers. He gave 4 stickers each to 3 friends. He also gave his friend Mandy 2 more than he gave his three friends total. And he gave Justin 10 less than Mandy. How many stickers does Colton have left?
A: Colton gave away 4 stickers * 3 friends = 12 stickers. Colton gave Mandy 2 + 12 stickers = 14 stickers. Colton gave Justin 14 stickers - 10 = 4 stickers. In total, Colton gave away 12 + 14 + 4 stickers = 30 stickers. Colton's number of total stickers at the end is 72 - 30 = 42 stickers. The answer is 42.
Question: Eden, Mary and Iris gather sand to fill their sandbox. Eden carried 4 buckets of sand. Mary carried 3 more buckets of sand than Eden. Iris carried 1 less bucket of sand than Mary. If each bucket contains 2 pounds of sand, how many pounds of sand did they collect in total?
Answer:
Mary carried 4 + 3 = 7 buckets of sand. Iris carried 7 1 = 6 buckets of sand. All together, they carried 4 + 7 + 6 = 17 buckets of sand. The sand weighed a total of 17 * 2 = 34 pounds. The answer is 34.