Question: Kalani has twenty candles in her bedroom, twice the number of candles in the living room. Donovan, her brother, brings in 20 more candles he bought from the candle shop. What's the total number of candles in the house?
Answer: If the number of candles in the bedroom is twice the number in the living room, there are 20 / 2 = 10 candles in the living room. When Donovan brings in 20 more candles, the total number of candles becomes 10 + 20 + 20 = 50. The answer is 50.
[Question]Punger collects baseball cards. He buys 60 packs of baseball cards. Each pack has 7 cards inside. He wants to put these cards in special pages to protect the cards. Each page can hold 10 cards. How many pages does he need to buy?
[Answer]60 packs of cards * 7 cards per pack = 420 cards. 420 cards / 10 cards per page = 42 pages. The answer is 42.
Q: Aubrey has a deck of cards with 52 cards in it. She then adds two additional cards to the deck. If she splits the deck evenly among herself and two other players, how many cards does each player have?
A: The deck has 54 cards because 52 + 2 = 54. There are three players because 1 + 2 = 3. Each player gets 18 cards because 54 / 3 = 18. The answer is 18.
Question: A bathroom has 10 6 inch tiles along its width and 20 6 inch tiles along its length. What is the square footage of the bathroom?
Answer: There are 10 tiles that are 6 inches long running the width of the bathroom so it is 10 * 6 = 60 inches long. There are 12 inches in a foot and it's 60 inches wide so it is 60 / 12 = 5 feet wide. There are 20 tiles that are 6 inches long running the length of the bathroom so it's 20 * 6 = 120 inches long. There are 12 inches in a foot and it's 120 inches long so it is 120 / 12 = 10 feet wide. The square footage is l x w so the bathroom has 10 * 5 = 50 sq feet. The answer is 50.
[Question]Gerald thought it would be funny to trick his coworker, who's allergic to peanuts, into eating a peanut butter cookie. When his coworker goes into anaphylactic shock and is taken to the hospital, Gerald is arrested. The judge sentences Gerald to 3 months for assault and 2 years for poisoning, then extends his sentence by 1/3 since this is Gerald's third offense. How many months does Gerald spend in jail?
[Answer]First convert the 2 - year sentence to months: 2 years * 12 months / year = 24 months. Then add the 3 months for assault: 24 months + 3 months = 27 months. Then find how long the 1 / 3 extension is: 27 months / 3 = 9 months. Finally, add up the three lengths of time to find the total sentence length: 27 months + 9 months = 36 months. The answer is 36.
[Question]Heloise has dogs and cats in the ratio of 10:17, with the total number of pets being 189. If she gives 10 dogs to her friend Janet, how many dogs does she remain with altogether?
[Answer]
The total ratio for the number of cats and dogs that Heloise has is 10 + 17 = 27. From the ratios, the fraction representing the number of dogs is 10 / 27, and this represents 10 / 27 * 189 = 70 dogs. If Heloise gives 10 of her dogs to Janet, she remains with 70 - 10 = 60 dogs. The answer is 60.