Q: The grocery store sells chips for $2 per packet and corn chips for $1.5 per packet. John would like to buy 15 packets of chips, and with the rest of the money he has left, buy as many packets of corn chips as he can. How many packets of corn chips could John buy if he has $45 for his entire purchase?
A: John wants to buy 15 packets of chips, which will cost him 15 * 2 = $30. So John would have 45 - 30 = $15 left for the corn chips. John could buy for the rest of the money 15 / 1.5 = 10 packets of corn chips. The answer is 10.
Question: Holly wants to plant a wall of privacy trees along her fence line. Her fence is 25 yards long. At maturity, the trees she wants to plant will measure 1.5 feet wide. Right now, these trees are on sale for $8.00 apiece. How much will it cost her to plant a row of the trees to run the length of her fence?
Answer: 3 feet are in 1 yard and her fence is 25 yards long so her fence is 3 * 25 = 75 feet long. At maturity these trees will measure 1.5 feet and she needs them to run along her 75 - foot fence so she needs 75 / 1.5 = 50 trees. The trees cost $8.00 apiece and she needs 50 so 8 * 50 = $400.00 worth of trees. The answer is 400.
[Question]One pie costs $4 for a piece. Each pie is having 3 pieces. During one hour the bakery can make 12 pies. Creating one pie costs the bakery $0.5. Considering the bakery would be able to sell all pie pieces, how much money would it make?
[Answer]If the bakery can make 12 pies, this means there would be 12 * 3 = 36 pie pieces. For all the pieces the bakery would make 36 * 4 = $144. The cost of making 12 pies is 12 * 0.5 = $6. That means the bakery would make 144 - 6 = $138. The answer is 138.
Q: Katya sold 8 glasses of lemonade and Ricky sold 9 glasses of lemonade. If Tina sold twice as many as Katya and Ricky's combined sales, how many more glasses of lemonade than Katya did Tina sell?
A: Katya and Ricky sold 8 + 9 = 17 glasses of lemonade. Tina sold 17 x 2 = 34 glasses of lemonade. Tina sold 34 - 8 = 26 more glasses of lemonade than Katya. The answer is 26.
Question: Ian won $100 in the lottery. He decided to use the money to pay off debts. He paid $20 to Colin. He then paid twice as much to Helen, as he had paid to Colin. Then finally, he paid half as much to Benedict, as he had paid to Helen. How much money, in dollars, does he have left after paying off debts?
Answer: Starting with $100, he paid $20 to Colin, leaving him with $100 - $20 = $80. Twice as much as $20 is 2 * $20 = $40. Thus, he paid $40 to Helen, leaving him with $80 - $40 = $40. Half as much to Benedict as he had paid to Helen is $40 / 2 = $20. Thus, he paid $20 to Benedict, leaving him with $40 - $20 = $20 after paying off all debts. The answer is 20.
Q: A convenience store sold 100 bags of chips in a month. In the first week, 15 bags of chips were sold. In the second week, thrice as many bags of chips were sold. There was an equal number of chips sold in the third and fourth week. How many chips was each sold in the third and fourth week?
A:
In the second week, 15 x 3 = 45 bags of chips were sold. So there was a total of 45 + 15 = 60 bags of chips sold on the first and second week. Thus, a total of 100 - 60 = 40 bags of chips were sold on the third and fourth week. Therefore, 40 / 2 = 20 bags of chips were each sold on the third and fourth week. The answer is 20.