Question: 5 geckos on the kitchen window eat 6 insects each. 3 lizards eat twice as much as the geckos. How many total insects were eaten?
Answer: The number of insects the geckos eat is 5 x 6 = 30. The number of insects the lizards eat is 3 x 12 = 36. The total number of insects eaten is 30 + 36 = 66 insects. The answer is 66.
[Question]James sells a $500,000 house for 20% over market value. He splits the revenue with his 3 brothers. How much does each person get after taxes take away 10%?
[Answer]He sells the house for 1 + .2 = 1.2 times its value. So he sells the house for 500,000 * 1.2 = 600,000. He splits the money 1 + 3 = 4 ways. So each person gets 600,000 / 4 = $150,000 before taxes. Taxes take away 150,000 * .1 = $15,000. So each person gets 150,000 - 15,000 = $135,000. The answer is 135000.
Q: Tate finishes high school in 1 year less than normal. It takes him 3 times that long to get his bachelor's degree and Ph.D. How many years did he spend in high school and college?
A: He finished high school in 4 - 1 = 3 years. It takes him 3 * 3 = 9 years to finish tertiary education. So he spends 3 + 9 = 12 years on this education. The answer is 12.
Question: Tom and Elizabeth have a competition to climb a hill. Elizabeth takes 30 minutes to climb the hill. Tom takes four times as long as Elizabeth does to climb the hill. How many hours does it take Tom to climb up the hill?
Answer: It takes Tom 30 * 4 = 120 minutes to climb the hill. It takes Tom 120 / 60 = 2 hours to climb the hill. The answer is 2.
[Question]A box has 2 dozen water bottles and half a dozen more apple bottles than water bottles. How many bottles are in the box?
[Answer]Since a dozen has 12 items, the box has 2 dozen water bottles, a total of 2 * 12 = 24 water bottles. The box also has half a dozen more apple bottles than water bottles, meaning there are 1 / 2 * 12 = 6 more apple bottles than water bottles. The total number of apple bottles in the box is 24 + 6 = 30. In the box, there are a total of 30 + 24 = 54 bottles. The answer is 54.
[Question]Kendra baked cookies for her family. Each batch contains 12 cookies. His family has 4 total people. She made three batches. Each cookie contains 2 chocolate chips. How many chips does each family member eat if they all get the same number of cookies?
[Answer]
She made 36 cookies because 12 x 3 = 36. These contain 72 chocolate chips because 36 x 2 = 72. They each get to eat 18 chocolate chips because 72 / 4 = 18. The answer is 18.