[Question]There are twice as many cows as dogs at a petting farm. If there are currently 184 cows at the farm, and the farm owner decides to sell 1/4 of the cows and 3/4 of the dogs, how many animals are remaining on the farm?
[Answer]If there are 184 cows, twice the number of dogs, then there are 184 / 2 = 92 dogs on the farm. When the farm owner decided to sell 1 / 4 of cows, he sold 1 / 4 * 184 = 46 cows. The total number of cows remaining on the farm is 184 - 46 = 138. If the farm owner also sold 3 / 4 of the dogs, he sold 3 / 4 * 92 = 69. The total number of dogs remaining on the farm is 92 - 69 = 23. The total number of animals remaining on the farm is 23 + 138 = 161. The answer is 161.
Q: Kris has been suspended for bullying many times. For every instance of bullying, she was suspended for 3 days. If she has been suspended for three times as many days as a typical person has fingers and toes, how many instances of bullying is she responsible for?
A: Three times as many days as a typical person has fingers and toes is 3 * 20 = 60 days. Three days per instance of bullying is 60 / 3 = 20 instances of bullying. The answer is 20.
Question: Steve bought $25 worth of groceries. He bought a gallon of milk for $3, two boxes of cereal for $3.5 each, 4 bananas for $.25 each, four apples that cost $.5 each and a number of boxes of cookies. The cookies cost twice as much per box as the gallon of milk. How many boxes of cookies did he get?
Answer: He spent $7 on cereal because 2 x 3.5 = 7. He spent $1 on bananas because 4 x .25 = 1. He spent $2 on apples because 4 x .5 = 2. He spent 13 on everything but the cookies because 3 + 7 + 1 + 2 = 13. He spent $12 on cookies because 25 - 13 = 12. Each box of cookies is $6 because 3 x 2 = 6. He bought 2 boxes of cookies because 12 / 6 = 2. The answer is 2.
[Question]On Monday, a restaurant sells forty dinners. On Tuesday, it sells 40 more dinners than it did Monday. On Wednesday, it sells half the amount of dinners it sold on Tuesday. On Thursday they changed their recipe, and then sold 3 more dinners than they did on Wednesday. How many dinners were sold in those 4 days?
[Answer]On Tuesday the restaurant sells 40 + 40 = 80 dinners. On Wednesday the restaurant sells 80 / 2 = 40 dinners. On Thursday the restaurant sells 40 + 3 = 43 dinners. In those 4 days, the restaurant sells a total of 40 + 80 + 40 + 43 = 203 dinners. The answer is 203.
Q: Marco owns an ice cream truck. His ice cream cones are $5 each. If his expenses are 80% of total sales for the day, how many ice cream cones would he need to sell to make a $200 profit for the day?
A: His expenses are 80 / 100 = 4 / 5. His profit would be 20 / 100 = 1 / 5. Total sales for the day is $200 x 5 = $1000. Total ice cream cones he sells is $1000 / 5 = 200. The answer is 200.
Question: At A.T. Cross Luxury Pens, a pencil sells at twenty-five cents while a pen sells at fifteen cents. Bowen buys 40 pens and 2/5 times more pencils than pens from A.T. Cross Luxury Pens. Calculate the total amount of money Bowen spends.
Answer:
Bowen bought 2 / 5 * 40 pens = 16 more pencils than pens. The total number of pencils that he bought is 40 pencils + 16 pencils = 56 pencils. If each pencil costs twenty - five cents, the total amount of money he spent on pencils is 56 pencils * $0.25 / pencil = $14. On pens, Bowen spent $0.15 / pen * 40 pens = $6. The total amount of money Bowen spent is $14 + $6 = $20. The answer is 20.