[Question]During the holidays, Lance works as a merchandiser. He works 35 hours a week, spread equally over 5 workdays. If Lance earns $9 an hour, how much does he make on each workday?
[Answer]Lance works 35 / 5 = 7 hours a day. So he makes $9 x 7 = $63 on each workday. The answer is 63.

[Question]Holly loves to drink chocolate milk. With breakfast, she drinks 8 ounces of chocolate milk before leaving for work. During her lunch break, she buys a new 64-ounce container of chocolate milk and then drinks 8 ounces of it. With dinner, she drinks another 8 ounces of chocolate milk. If she ends the day with 56 ounces of chocolate milk, how many ounces of chocolate milk did she begin the day with?
[Answer]Before dinner, she had 56 + 8 = 64 ounces of CM. Before drinking 8 ounces of CM during lunch, she had 64 + 8 = 72 ounces of CM. Before buying 64 ounces of CM, she had 72 - 64 = 8 ounces of CM. And before breakfast, she had 8 + 8 = 16 ounces of chocolate milk. The answer is 16.

[Question]Francine has five full boxes of crayons and 5 loose crayons, and her friend has 27 loose crayons. They need to put all of their loose crayons in a box. How many more boxes do they need if Francine has a total of 85 crayons?
[Answer]Francine has 85 - 5 = 80 crayons in total that are in the boxes. Thus, each box of crayons is filled with 80 / 5 = 16 crayons. A total of 5 + 27 = 32 crayons need to be placed in the boxes. Therefore, they still need 32 / 16 = 2 boxes for the loose crayons. The answer is 2.

[Question]Rodney and Todd are rowing down a river that is 50 yards wide at one end. If the river's width increases from this end uniformly by 2 yards every 10 meters along, and they row along the river at a rate of 5 m/s, how long (in seconds) will it take them to get to the point where the river is 80 yards wide?
[Answer]
The difference in width between where they're starting from and their destination is 80 - 50 = 30 yards. The width increases 2 yards every 10 m along the river so they would have to cover (30 / 2) * 10 = 150 meters. Traveling at the rate of 5m / s, he will spend 150 / 5 = 30 seconds. The answer is 30.