Question: Travis goes through 2 boxes of cereal a week. If each box costs $3.00 and he eats 2 boxes every week for an entire year, 52 weeks, how much does he spend on cereal?
Answer: He eats 2 boxes for 52 weeks so he eats 2 * 52 = 104 boxes. Each box costs $3.00 and he buys 104 boxes so he spends 3 * 104 = $312.00. The answer is 312.
[Question]In the second hour of a storm it rains 7 inches more than twice the amount it rained the first hour. The total amount of rain in the first two hours is 22 inches. How much did it rain in the first hour?
[Answer]Let x be the amount of rain in the first hour. It rained 2x + 7 inches in the second hour. x + 2x + 7 = 22. 3x + 7 = 22. 3x = 15. x = 5 inches. The answer is 5.
Q: Snap, Crackle, and Pop spend $150 on cereal in a grocery store. Snap spends twice as much as Crackle. Crackle spends 3 times as much as Pop. How much did Pop spend?
A: Let x represent the amount that Pop spent in $. Crackle: 3x. Snap:2(3x) = 6x. x + 3x + 6x = 150. 10x = 150. x = 15. The answer is 15.
Question: Jane sews 2 dresses a day for 7 days. Then she sews 3 dresses a day for the next 2 days. In the end, she adds 2 ribbons to each dress. How many ribbons does Jane use in total?
Answer: In 7 days, Jane sews 2 * 7 = 14 dresses. In the next 2 days, Jane sews 3 * 2 = 6 dresses. Jane sews a total of 14 + 6 = 20 dresses. Jane uses a total of 20 * 2 = 40 ribbons. The answer is 40.
[Question]Corey downloaded two movie series from his Netflix account with 12 and 14 seasons per series, respectively. However, in the week, his computer got a mechanical failure, and he lost two episodes from each season for both series. If each season in the movie series that Corey downloaded had 16 episodes, how many episodes remained after the computer's mechanical failure?
[Answer]In the first movie series with 12 seasons, after the mechanical failure, the number of episodes that Corey lost is 2 * 12 = 24. Originally, the movie series with 12 seasons had 12 * 16 = 192 episodes. After the mechanical failure, Corey had 192 - 24 = 168 episodes remaining in the first movie series. Similarly, the 14 season movie series also had 14 * 2 = 28 lost after the computer's mechanical failure. Originally, the movie series with 14 seasons has 14 * 16 = 224 episodes. The mechanical failure of the computer reduced the number of episodes in the 14 season movie series to 224 - 28 = 196. After the loss, Corey had 196 + 168 = 364 episodes remaining from the two movie series he had downloaded. The answer is 364.
[Question]Carlos and Diego are racing around the block. Carlos runs around the entire block in 3 minutes. Diego runs around half the block in 2.5 minutes and then is tripped by a dog and can't finish. Assuming he kept up the same speed the entire race, what would've been the average time in seconds for the racers?
[Answer]
If he finished the race, it would've taken 5 minutes because 2.5 x 2 = 5. Their total time would've been 8 minutes because 3 + 5 = 8. The average would've been 4 minutes because 8 / 2 = 4. The average time in seconds would've been 240 because 4 x 60 = 240. The answer is 240.