Question: If a basket is capable of holding 40 fruit altogether, and there are 3 times as many apples as oranges, how many oranges are there?
Answer: Since the ratio of apples to oranges is 3:1, that means for every 3 apples there is 1 orange. The size of this group is therefore 3 + 1 = 4. We then divide this group size into the total amount of fruit the basket is holding at this time, which is 40. This means there are 40 / 4 = 10 of these groups in total. Since there are 10 of these groups in total, that means there are 10 * 1 = 10 oranges in the basket. The answer is 10.
[Question]James splits 4 packs of stickers that have 30 stickers each. Each sticker cost $.10. If his friend pays for half how much did James pay?
[Answer]He buys 4 * 30 = 120 stickers. That means it cost 120 * .1 = $12. So he pays 12 * .5 = $6. The answer is 6.
Q: Kiki made 10 cucumber sandwiches and 8 egg sandwiches for the tea party. Each cucumber sandwich was cut into 4 triangles. Each egg sandwich was cut into 2 rectangles. If her guests ate 28 triangles and 12 rectangles, how many slices of bread did they eat?
A: The guests ate 28 / 4 = 7 cucumber sandwiches. The guests ate 12 / 2 = 6 egg sandwiches. They ate a total of 7 + 6 = 13 sandwiches. They ate a total of 13 x 2 = 26 slices of bread. The answer is 26.
Question: Caprice is taking piano lessons. Her mother pays the teacher $10 for every half-hour of teaching her daughter. If Caprice is taking one lesson per week, and the lesson lasts 1 hour, how much money would the teacher earn in 5 weeks?
Answer: If half - hour lesson is worth $10, then a one - hour lesson costs 2 * 10 = $20. One lesson per week would mean that in 5 weeks the teacher would earn 20 * 5 = $100. The answer is 100.
[Question]Timothy and Theresa go to the movies very often. Timothy went to the movies 7 more times in 2010 that he did in 2009. In 2009, Timothy went to the movies 24 times.In 2010 Theresa went to see twice as many movies as Timothy did, but in 2009, she only saw half as many as he did. How many movies did Timothy and Theresa go on in both 2009 and 2010?
[Answer]In 2010 Timothy watched 24 + 7 = 31 movies. In 2010 Theresa watched 31 * 2 = 62 movies. In 2009 Theresa watched 24 / 2 = 12 movies. In both 2009 and 2010 Timothy and Theresa watched 24 + 31 + 62 + 12 = 129 movies. The answer is 129.
[Question]In his garden, Grandpa had counted 36 small tomatoes before going on vacation. When he came back from vacation, he counted 100 times more tomatoes. How many tomatoes grew in his absence?
[Answer]
Before going on vacation, Grandpa counts 36 tomatoes. After going on vacation, Grandpa has 100 * 36 = 3600 tomatoes. So in his absence, 3600 - 36 = 3564 tomatoes have grown. The answer is 3564.