Question: Archie received his medical receipt from his doctor, and he needs to take antibiotics three times a day. If antibiotic costs $3 each and he needs to take it for a week, how much money does he need to buy the antibiotics?
Answer: Archie needs $3 x 3 = $9 per day to buy 3 antibiotics. Therefore Archie needs $9 x 7 = $63 to buy antibiotics that will last for a week. The answer is 63.
[Question]John has to pay taxes. He earned $100,000 for the year. He has $30,000 in deductions. The first $20,000 of taxable income is taxed at 10%. The rest is taxed at 20%. How much does he pay in taxes?
[Answer]His taxable income is 100,000 - 30,000 = $70,000. So he pays 20,000 * .1 = $2000 tax at the lower rate. He has to pay 70,000 - 20,000 = $50,000 at the higher rate. The taxes for that is 50,000 * .2 = $10,000. So his total tax bill is 10,000 + 2,000 = $12,000. The answer is 12000.
Q: Billy is reducing raspberry juice down to make syrup. He reduces 6 quarts of juice to 1/12 of its original volume, then adds 1 cup of sugar. What is the final volume of the syrup in cups? (There are 4 cups in a quart)
A: First find the total number of cups of juice: 6 quarts * 4 cups / quart = 24 cups. Then find the reduced volume of the juice: 24 cups * 1 / 12 = 2 cups. Then add the volume of the sugar to find the total volume of the syrup: 2 cups + 1 cups = 3 cups. The answer is 3.
Question: Lyla, a grocery store owner, bought rice weighing 30 kg less than green beans, which weigh 10 kg more than sugar. While carrying the goods to the store, the bags fell down and 1/3 weight of the rice and 1/5 weight of sugar was lost. If the green beans weighed 60 kgs, then how much did the remaining stock weigh?
Answer: If rice weighed 30 kg less than the green beans, then the total rice weight is 60 kg - 30 kg = 30 kg. If the green beans weighed 10 kg more than sugar, then the total sugar weight is 60 kg - 10 kg = 50 kg. When 1 / 3 weight of rice was lost, the weight loss became 1 / 3 * 30 = 10kg. The weight of rice after the loss is 30 kg - 10 kg = 20 kg. When 1 / 5 weight of sugar was lost, the lost weight was 1 / 5 * 50 kg = 10 kg. The weight of sugar after the loss is 50 kg - 10 kg = 40 kg. The total weight for all the items is 40 kg + 20 kg + 60 kg = 120 kg. The answer is 120.
[Question]James has an old printer that crumples every seventh page and blurs the ink on every third page. If he prints 42 pages, how many are neither crumpled or blurred?
[Answer]First find the total number of pages that are crumpled: 42 pages / 7 = 6 pages. Then find the total number of pages that are blurred: 42 pages / 3 = 14 pages. Then find the number of pages that are both blurred and crumpled by finding how many numbers are less or equal to 42 and divisible by both 3 and 7: there are two, 21 and 42. Then subtract the number of crumpled and blurred pages from the total number of pages, and add the number of pages that were double - counted because they were both blurred and crumpled: 42 pages - 6 pages - 14 pages + 2 pages = 24 pages. The answer is 24.
[Question]Neil baked 20 cookies. He gave 2/5 of the cookies to his friend. How many cookies are left for Neil?
[Answer]
Neil gave 20 x 2 / 5 = 8 cookies. So he is left with 20 - 8 = 12 cookies. The answer is 12.