Question: James decides to make a bathtub full of jello. For every pound of water, you need 1.5 tablespoons of jello mix. The bathtub can hold 6 cubic feet of water. Each cubic foot of water is 7.5 gallons. A gallon of water weighs 8 pounds. A tablespoon of jello mix costs $0.50. How much did he spend to fill his tub?
Answer: The tub has 6 * 7.5 = 45 gallons. That would weigh 45 * 8 = 360 pounds. So he needs 360 * 1.5 = 540 tablespoons of jello mix. So he spent 540 * .5 = $270. The answer is 270.

Question: Jesse received $50 as a gift to buy what she wants. She goes to the mall and falls in love with a novel that costs her $7. Then she went to lunch because she was very hungry and spent twice as much as the novel cost her. How much money did Jesse have left after going to the mall?
Answer: Jesse bought a novel for $7. She then bought lunch for twice the value of the novel, so lunch cost her $7 x 2 = $14. To find out how much money she has left from her gift she must know the total amount she spent $7 + $14 = $21. Her gift was $50, so she was left with $50 - $21 = $29. The answer is 29.

Question: Dallas and Austin went to the pick-your-own orchard. Dallas picked 14 bags of apples and 9 bags of pears. Austin picked 6 bags of apples more than Dallas, and 5 fewer bags of pears than Dallas. How many bags of fruit did Austin pick, in total?
Answer: He picked 14 + 6 = 20 bags of apples. He picked 9 - 5 = 4 bags of pears. He picked 20 + 4 = 24 bags of fruit in total. The answer is 24.

Question: Jack makes his own cold brew coffee. He makes it in batches of 1.5 gallons. He drinks 96 ounces of coffee every 2 days. It takes 20 hours to make coffee. How long does he spend making coffee over 24 days?
Answer:
He makes it in batches of 1.5 * 128 = 192 ounces. He drinks 96 / 2 = 48 ounces of coffee a day. So he drinks the coffee in 192 / 48 = 4 days. So in 24 days he makes 24 / 4 = 6 batches. That means he spends 6 * 20 = 120 hours making coffee. The answer is 120.