[Question]Mr. Ray has 100 customers waiting at his fish market. He has 10 tuna, each of which weighs 200 pounds. Each customer wants 25 pounds of tuna. Mr. Ray's store is first come, first served. How many customers will go home without any fish?
[Answer]He has 2,000 pounds of fish because 10 x 200 = 2,000. He has enough for 80 customers because 2,000 / 25 = 80. 20 customers go home without any fish because 100 - 80 = 20. The answer is 20.
Q: Ajax is 80 kilograms. He is planning to lose some weight. Exercising for an hour will help him lose 1.5 pounds. If 1 kilogram is equal to 2.2 pounds How many pounds will he weigh if he exercises for 2 hours every day for two weeks?
A: Ajax weighs 80 x 2.2 = 176 in pounds. He will lose 1.5 x 2 = 3 pounds per day. So he will lose 3 x 7 = 21 pounds per week. So, he will lose 21x 2 = 42 pounds after 2 weeks. Therefore, he will weigh 176 - 42 = 134 pounds after 2 weeks. The answer is 134.
Question: Jill is going to resod her front yard. The plot of land in front of her house is 200 feet wide by 50 feet. Her house has a sidewalk that is 3 feet wide and 50 feet long. There are also four flower beds: two right in front of the house that are 4 feet deep by 25 feet long, one that is 10 feet by 12 feet, and a fourth that is 7 feet by 8 feet. How many square feet of sod will she need to cover her yard, minus the sidewalk and flower beds?
Answer: The area of the whole front yard is 200 feet by 50 feet, or 200 ft * 50 ft = 10,000 sq.ft. The sidewalk is 3 feet by 50 feet, or 3ft * 50ft = 150 sq.ft. Each of the flower beds right in front of the house is 4 feet by 25 feet, or 4 ft * 25 ft = 100 sq.ft. There are two, so that's 2 * 100 sq.ft. = 200 sq.ft. The third flower bed is 10 feet by 12 feet, or 10ft * 12ft = 120 sq.ft. The fourth flower bed is 7 feet by 8 feet, or 7ft * 8ft = 56 sq.ft. The total area of the sidewalk and flower beds is 150 sq.ft + 200 sq.ft + 120 sq.ft + 56 sq.ft = 526 sq. ft. So Jill will need a total of 10,000 sq.ft - 526 sq.ft = 9,474 sq.ft. of sod. The answer is 9474.
[Question]Carly is overnight shipping some fresh-baked cookies to her grandma. The shipping cost is equal to a flat $5.00 fee plus $0.80 per pound of weight. If the package weighs 5 pounds, how much does Carly pay for shipping?
[Answer]First calculate the weight - based charge by multiplying the package's weight in pounds by the price per pound: 5 pounds * $0.80 / pound = $4.00. Then add the weight - based charge to the flat fee to find the total cost: $4.00 + $5.00 = $9.00. The answer is 9.
Q: Vanessa's new business is thriving and she frequently has orders to post. She has run out of packing peanuts for the packages and is now wondering how many orders she has sent. Each large order needs 200g of packing peanuts while small orders need just 50g of packing peanuts. If Lisa has used a total of 800g of packing peanuts and she knows she has sent 3 large orders, how many small orders has Lisa sent?
A: In the large orders, Lisa used 3 large orders * 200g of packing peanuts per large order = 600g of packing peanuts. The rest of the packing peanuts were used in small orders so there was a total of 800g packing peanuts - 600g of packing peanuts used in large orders = 200g of packing peanuts used in small orders. So there must have been 200g of packing peanuts / 50g of packing peanuts per small order = 4 small orders. The answer is 4.
Question: When Pogo, the four-legged martian, walks across the soft Martian soil, it leaves 4 footprints every meter. But Grimzi, the three-legged Plutonian, leaves only 3 footprints in the soft sands of Pluto for every 6 meters it walks. If Pogo travels 6000 meters across the soil of Mars, and Grimzi travels for 6000 meters across the fine sands of Pluto, what is the combined total number of footprints the two creatures will leave on the surfaces of their respective planets?
Answer:
Since Pogo leaves 4 prints per meter, then over 6000 meters it would leave 4 * 6000 = 24,000 footprints on the soils of Mars. Grimzi leaves 3 prints per 6 feet, or 3 / 6 = 0.5 footprints per meter. Then over 6000 meters, Grimzi leaves 0.5 * 6000 = 3000 footprints on the sands of Pluto. In total, the two creatures will leave 24,000 + 3000 = 27,000 footprints. The answer is 27000.