Q: Alyssa, Keely, and Kendall ordered 100 chicken nuggets from a fast-food restaurant. Keely and Kendall each ate twice as many as Alyssa. How many did Alyssa eat?
A: To figure out this problem we need to turn it into an equation. Let's make A the number of nuggets Alyssa ate. We know all three girls ate 100 nuggets total, so 100 nuggets = A (how many Alyssa ate) + 2A (how many Keely ate) + 3A (how many Kendall ate) or 100 = A + 2A + 3A which is 100 = 5A. Then we will divide each side by 5 to figure out how many nuggets Alyssa ate, 100 / 5 = 5A / 5 or 20 = A. The answer is 20.
Question: Archibald eats 1 apple a day for two weeks. Over the next three weeks, he eats the same number of apples as the total of the first two weeks. Over the next two weeks, he eats 3 apples a day. Over these 7 weeks, how many apples does he average a week?
Answer: He ate 14 apples the first two weeks because 14 x 1 = 14. He ate 14 apples in the next three weeks because 14 = 14. He ate 42 apples in the final two weeks because 14 x 3 = 42. He ate 70 apples in total. He averaged 10 apples a week because 70 / 7 = 10. The answer is 10.
[Question]Stan weighs 5 more pounds than Steve. Steve is eight pounds lighter than Jim. If Jim weighs 110 pounds and the three of them crowd onto a scale at the same time, what is their total weight?
[Answer]Steve weighs 110 - 8 = 102 pounds. Stan weighs 102 + 5 = 107 pounds. Their total weight is 102 + 107 + 110 = 319 pounds. The answer is 319.
Q: 3 lions and 2 rhinos escape from the zoo. If it takes 2 hours to recover each animal how long did the zoo spend recovering animals?
A: They had to recover 3 + 2 = 5 animals. So it took 5 * 2 = 10 hours to recover everyone. The answer is 10.
Question: Jane plans on reading a novel she borrows from her friend. She reads twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening. In the morning she reads 5 pages and in the evening she reads 10 pages. If she reads at this rate for a week, how many pages will she read?
Answer: The number of pages Jane reads in a day is 5 in the morning and 10 in the evening, so she reads 10 + 5 = 15 pages in a day. If she reads for a week she reads for 7 days, so by the end of the week she reads 15 * 7 = 105 pages. The answer is 105.
Q: Bill picked 50 apples from the orchard with his wife and two children. He sends each of his kids to school with 3 apples for their two favorite teachers. His wife Jill bakes two apple pies, using 10 apples per pie. How many apples does Bill have left?
A:
Bill gives each of his children 3 apples, so since he has two children this is 3 * 2 = 6 apples. Jill bakes 2 apple pies, using 10 apples each so this means she uses 10 * 2 = 20 apples. In total, this means 20 + 6 = 26 apples were used. Since Bill began with 50 apples, this means there are 50 - 26 = 24 apples remaining. The answer is 24.