[Question]Bucky earns money each weekend catching and selling fish. He wants to save up for a new video game, which costs $60. Last weekend he earned $35. He can earn $5 from trout and $4 from blue-gill. He caught five fish this Sunday. If 60% were trout, and the rest were blue-gill, how much more does he need to save before he can buy the game?
[Answer]He is $25 short for the game because 60 - 35 = 25. He caught 3 trout because 5 x .6 = 3. He caught 2 blue - gill because 5 - 3 = 2. He earned $15 from the trout because 3 x 5 = 15. He earned $8 from the blue - gill because 2 x 4 = 8. He earned $23 total because 15 + 8 = 23. He is $2 short because 25 - 23 = 2. The answer is 2.
Q: Jillian had 80 oranges which she had bought to give to her friends. She divided each orange into ten equal pieces for each friend to get four pieces. How many friends were there?
A: If she divided each orange into 10 pieces, she got 80 * 10 = 800 pieces of orange. Since each friend received 4 pieces, there were 800 / 4 = 200 friends. The answer is 200.
Question: Edward had $17.80 to spend at the toy store. He bought 4 toy cars that cost $0.95 each and a race track that cost $6.00. How much money does Edward have left to buy more toys?
Answer: The cost of the toy cars is 4 $0.95 = $3.80. The total cost of the toys is $3.80 + $6.00 = $9.80. Edward has $17.80 $9.80 = $8.00 left. The answer is 8.
[Question]Heloise has dogs and cats in the ratio of 10:17, with the total number of pets being 189. If she gives 10 dogs to her friend Janet, how many dogs does she remain with altogether?
[Answer]The total ratio for the number of cats and dogs that Heloise has is 10 + 17 = 27. From the ratios, the fraction representing the number of dogs is 10 / 27, and this represents 10 / 27 * 189 = 70 dogs. If Heloise gives 10 of her dogs to Janet, she remains with 70 - 10 = 60 dogs. The answer is 60.
Q: Rebecca runs a hair salon. She charges $30 for haircuts, $40 for perms, and $60 for dye jobs, but she has to buy a box of hair dye for $10 to dye every head of hair. Today, she has four haircuts, one perm, and two dye jobs scheduled. If she makes $50 in tips, how much money will she have in dollars at the end of the day?
A: Rebecca will make 30 * 4 = $120 from haircuts today. She will make 60 * 2 = $120 from dye jobs. She will spend 10 * 2 = $20 on hair dye. With the $40 perm and tips, at the end of the day, Rebecca will have 120 + 120 + 40 - 20 + 50 = $310. The answer is 310.
Question: Dan spent an hour doing 400 work tasks at $0.25 each. Then Dan spent an hour doing 5 work tasks at $2.00 each. How much more did Dan make doing the good work compared to the lower-paid work?
Answer:
Dan spent an hour doing 400 tasks * $.25 = $100. Dan spent an hour doing 5 tasks * $2.00 each = $10.00. Dan made $100 - $10 = $90.00 per hour more doing the higher paid work. The answer is 90.