[Question]Wayne wants to serve shrimp cocktail as an appetizer. He plans on 5 shrimp per guest and will have 40 guests. If the shrimp costs $17.00 per pound and each pound has 20 shrimp, how much will he spend on the appetizer?
[Answer]He wants to serve 5 shrimp per guest and will have 40 guests so he needs 5 * 40 = 200 shrimp. Each pound of shrimp has 20 shrimp and he needs 200 shrimp so he needs 200 / 20 = 10 pounds of shrimp. The shrimp is $17.00 per pound and he needs 10 pounds so he will spend 17 * 10 = $170.00 on shrimp. The answer is 170.
Q: Bucky earns money each weekend catching and selling fish. He wants to save up for a new video game, which costs $60. Last weekend he earned $35. He can earn $5 from trout and $4 from blue-gill. He caught five fish this Sunday. If 60% were trout, and the rest were blue-gill, how much more does he need to save before he can buy the game?
A: He is $25 short for the game because 60 - 35 = 25. He caught 3 trout because 5 x .6 = 3. He caught 2 blue - gill because 5 - 3 = 2. He earned $15 from the trout because 3 x 5 = 15. He earned $8 from the blue - gill because 2 x 4 = 8. He earned $23 total because 15 + 8 = 23. He is $2 short because 25 - 23 = 2. The answer is 2.
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.
[Question]Paityn has 20 red hats and 24 blue hats. Her friend Zola has 4/5 times as many red hats as she has and twice the number of blue hats. If they combine all the hats together and share them equally between themselves, calculate the number of hats each gets.
[Answer]Paityn has a total of 20 hats + 24 hats = 44 hats. The number of red hats that Zola has is 4 / 5 * 20 hats = 16 hats. Zola also has 2 * 24 hats = 48 blue hats. Zola has a total of 48 hats + 16 hats = 64 hats. When they combine their hats, they have 64 hats + 44 hats = 108 hats. If they share the hats equally, each get 108 hats / 2 people = 54 hats / person. The answer is 54.
Q: Audrey was asleep for 10 hours last night and dreamed for 2/5 of the time. How much of the night was she not dreaming?
A: If Audrey was asleep for 10 hours last night and dreamed for 2 / 5 of the time, she dreamed for 2 / 5 * 10 = 4 hours. The total time Audrey slept without dreaming is 10 - 4 = 6 hours. The answer is 6.
Question: While buying DVDs at the store, Maria received a 25% discount. If the discount she received is $40, how much did she pay in total?
Answer:
Since 100 percent represent the original price, and she received a 25% discount which is $40, the original price is 100 / 25 * 40 = 160. Maria paid $160 - $40 = $120 after receiving the twenty - five percent discount. The answer is 120.