Question: Betty & Paige are raising money for their kids' little league team by hosting a bake sale. Betty has baked 4 dozen chocolate chip cookies, 6 dozen oatmeal raisin cookies and 2 dozen regular brownies. Paige baked 6 dozen sugar cookies, 3 dozen blondies and 5 dozen cream cheese swirled brownies. If they sell the cookies for $1.00 apiece and the blondies/brownies at $2.00 apiece, how much money will they raise?
Answer: Together, they made 4 + 6 + 6 dozen cookies for a total of 16 dozen cookies. One dozen equals 12 cookies, so 12 * 16 = 192 cookies. Together, they made 2 + 3 + 5 = 10 dozen blondies / brownies. One dozen equals 12 brownies so 12 * 10 = 120 blondies / brownies. They sold the cookies for $1.00 each so 1(192 = $192.00 in cookies. They sold the blondies / brownies for $2.00 each so 2 * 120 = $240 in blondies / brownies. Together, they made 192 + 240 = $432.00 for the little league team. The answer is 432.
[Question]Tamtam collected 65 shells in total. She got 13 purple shells, 8 pink shells, 18 yellow shells, and 12 blue shells. The remaining shells are color orange. How many orange shells are there?
[Answer]Tamtam has a total of 13 + 8 + 18 + 12 = 51 shells that are not orange. Therefore, Tamtam has a total of 65 51 = 14 orange shells. The answer is 14.
Q: Milo's parents tell him that he can win cash rewards for good grades. He will get $5 times the average grade he gets. He gets three 2s, four 3s, a 4, and a 5. How much cash does he get?
A: His total score is 27 because (3 x 2) + (4 x 3) + 4 + 5 = 27. His total number of grades is 9 because 3 + 4 + 1 + 1 = 9. His average grade is a 3 because 27 / 9 = 3. He earns $15 because 5 x 3 = 15. The answer is 15.
Question: Gabriel is 3 years younger than Frank. The current total of their ages right now is 17. What is Frank's age?
Answer: Let X be Frank's age. So Gabriel is X - 3 years old. The total of their ages is X + (X - 3) = 17 years old. 2X - 3 = 17. 2X = 20. X = 10. So Frank is X = 10 years old. The answer is 10.
[Question]Perry, Dana, Charlie, and Phil played golf together every week. At the end of the season, Perry had won five more games than Dana, but Charlie had won 2 games fewer than Dana. Phil had won 3 games more than Charlie did. If Phil won a total of 12 games, how many more games did Perry win than did Phil?
[Answer]If Phil had won 3 games more than did Charlie, and Phil won 12 games, then Charlie won 12 - 3 = 9 games. If Charlie had won 2 games fewer than Dana, and Charlie won 9 games, then Dana won 9 + 2 = 11 games. If Perry had won five more games than did Dana, and Dana won 11 games, then Perry won 11 + 5 = 16 games. Thus, Perry won 16 - 12 = 4 more games than did Phil. The answer is 4.
[Question]In ten years, I'll be twice my brother's age. The sum of our ages will then be 45 years old. How old am I now?
[Answer]
Let X be my age now. In ten years, I'll be X + 10 years old. In ten years, my brother will be (X + 10) * 1 / 2 years old. In ten years, (X + 10) + (X + 10) * 1 / 2 = 45. So (X + 10) * 3 / 2 = 45. X + 10 = 45 * 2 / 3 = 30. X = 30 - 10 = 20 years old. The answer is 20.