[Question]Sally, Sam, and Steve went to play with their marbles. In the beginning, Sam has twice as many marbles as Steve while Sally has 5 less than Sam. After Sam has given Sally and Steve 3 marbles each, Sam has 8 marbles left. How many marbles does Steve have now?
[Answer]Sam has 8 marbles left after giving 3 marbles / person x 2 people = 6 marbles to Sally and Steve. Hence, Sam had 8 marbles + 6 marbles = 14 marbles in the beginning. Sam had twice as many marbles as Steve, therefore Steve has 14 marbles / 2 = 7 marbles in the beginning. So now, Steve has a total of 7 marbles + 3 marbles = 10 marbles after Sam gave him 3 marbles. The answer is 10.
Q: Jared likes to draw monsters. He drew a monster family portrait. The mom had 1 eye and the dad had 3. They had 3 kids, each with 4 eyes. How many eyes did the whole family have?
A: The mom and dad monsters had 1 + 3 = 4 eyes. The 3 kids had 4 eyes each, so 3 x 4 = 12 eyes. Altogether, the monster family had 4 parent eyes + 12 child eyes = 16 eyes. The answer is 16.
Question: Chuck can ride the merry-go-round 5 times longer than Dave who can only ride it for 10 minutes before getting sick. Erica can stay on the merry-go-round 30% longer than Chuck before getting sick. How long can Erica stay on the merry-go-round?
Answer: Dave can ride the merry - go - round for 10 minutes and Chuck can ride 5 times longer than Dave so he can ride for 10 * 5 = 50 minutes. Erica can stay on 30% longer than Chuck who can ride for 50 minutes so that's an extra .30 * 50 = 15 minutes. Chuck can ride for 50 minutes and Erica can ride an extra 15 minutes for a total of 50 + 15 = 65 minutes. The answer is 65.
[Question]Mitchell has 30 pencils. He has 6 more pencils than Antonio. How many pencils does Mitchell and Antonio have together?
[Answer]Antonio has 30 - 6 = 24 pencils. Antonio and Mitchell have 24 + 30 = 54 pencils together. The answer is 54.
Q: There was only enough room for 21 people on a raft if no one wore life jackets. There were 7 fewer people who could fit on the raft if everyone wore life jackets. If 8 people on the raft needed life jackets, how many people could fit on the raft?
A: If everyone wore life jackets, only 21 - 7 = 14 people could fit on the raft. For every person less on the raft, 14 / 7 = 2 life jackets could fit. For 8 life jackets, 8 / 2 = 4 less people could fit. 21 - 4 = 17 people could fit on the raft. The answer is 17.
Question: For every black & white cookie that Elsa makes, she has to make the batter, bake the cookies for 15 minutes and then allow to cool. She then has to dip the cookies in white icing and allow the icing to harden for 30 minutes. Then she has to re-dip them in chocolate icing and allowed to harden for an additional 30 minutes. If it takes her 2 hours to make the cookies from start to finish, how long does it take to make the dough and cool the cookies before she can start dipping them?
Answer:
It takes 15 minutes to bake, 30 minutes for the white icing to harden and 30 minutes for the chocolate icing to harden so it takes 15 + 30 + 30 = 75 minutes. Every hour has 60 minutes and it takes her 2 hours so it takes 60 * 2 = 120 minutes to make the cookies. It takes 120 minutes to make the cookies from start to finish and she spends 75 minutes baking and hardening icing so it takes her 120 - 75 = 45 minutes to make the batter and cool the cookies. The answer is 45.