Q: James makes potatoes for a group. Each person eats 1.5 pounds of potatoes. He makes potatoes for 40 people. A 20-pound bag of potatoes costs $5. How much does it cost?
A: He needs 1.5 * 40 = 60 pounds of potatoes. So he needs to buy 60 / 20 = 3 bags of potatoes. So it cost 3 * 5 = $15. The answer is 15.
Question: Matt has six cats and half of them are female. If each female cat has 7 kittens, and Matt sells 9 of them, what percentage of his remaining cats are kittens (rounded to the nearest percent)?
Answer: First find the number of cats that are females: 6 cats / 2 = 3 cats. Then find the total number of kittens born: 7 kittens / cat * 3 cats = 21 kittens. Then subtract the 9 kittens that were sold: 21 kittens - 9 kittens = 12 kittens. Then add the number of kittens to the number of adult cats to find the total number of cats: 12 kittens + 6 cats = 18 cats. Then divide the number of kittens by the total number of cats and multiply by 100% to find the percentage of cats that are kittens: 12 kittens / 18 cats * 100% = 66.666...%, which rounds up to 67%. The answer is 67.
[Question]Linda makes $10.00 an hour babysitting. There is a $25.00 application fee for each college application she submits. If she is applying to 6 colleges, how many hours will she need to babysit to cover the application fees?
[Answer]The application fee is $25.00 per college and she is applying to 6 colleges so that's 25 * 6 = $150.00. She makes $10.00 an hour babysitting. Her application fees total $150.00 so she needs to work 150 / 10 = 15 hours to cover the cost. The answer is 15.
Q: Ricky has 40 roses. His little sister steals 4 roses. If he wants to give away the rest of the roses in equal portions to 9 different people, how many roses will each person get?
A: After Ricky's little sister takes 4 roses, Ricky has 40 - 4 = 36 roses. Ricky can give each person 36 / 9 = 4 roses. The answer is 4.
Question: Coral reads 30 pages of a book on night 1, and 2 less than twice that on night 2. Night 3 Coral reads 3 more pages than the sum of the first two nights. How many total pages did Coral read in the 3 nights?
Answer: Night 1:30 pages. Night 2:2(30) - 2 = 58 pages. Night 3:3 + (30 + 58) = 91 pages. Total:30 + 58 + 91 = 179 pages. The answer is 179.
Q: Jen has 10 more ducks than four times the number of chickens. If Jen has 150 ducks, how many total birds does she have?
A:
Let the number of chickens be c. If there are 150 ducks, we can describe the number of chickens as 150 = 10 + 4c. So, 4c = 150. And, there are c = 35 chickens. In total, Jen has 35 chickens + 150 ducks = 185 birds. The answer is 185.