Q: Maisie and Donna dropped off flyers for a neighborhood clean-up day at houses around their neighborhood. Maisie walked down the shorter left street and dropped off 33 flyers. Donna took the long right street on her bicycle and dropped off five more than twice as many flyers as Maisie. How many flyers did Donna drop off?
A: Twice as many flyers as Maisie is 33 * 2 = 66 flyers. Donna dropped off five more than that, so she dropped off 66 + 5 = 71 flyers. The answer is 71.
Question: Jeremy listened to five fewer songs yesterday than today. Yesterday, he listened to nine songs. How many songs did Jeremy listen to in two days?
Answer: Jeremy listened to 9 + 5 = 14 songs today. Thus, he listened to 9 + 14 = 23 songs in two days. The answer is 23.
[Question]Randy just turned 12 and started playing the piano. His friend Sheila told him about the 10,000-hour rule which says, after 10,000 hours of practice, you become an expert or master in your field. If Randy wants to become a piano expert before he is 20, how many hours a day will he need to practice if he practices every day, Monday Friday, and takes two weeks off for vacation each year?
[Answer]Randy has 20 12 = 8 years until he is 20. He must practice 10,000 hours / 8 years = 1,250 hours a year to become an expert. There are 52 weeks in a year 2 weeks of vacation Randy plans to take = 50 weeks of practice for Randy. Randy will practice Monday Friday, which is 5 days a week, so 50 weeks x 5 days = 250 days of practice each year. Randy will need to practice 1250 hours / 250 days = 5 hours each day. The answer is 5.
Q: If a tarantula has eight legs, and one tarantula egg sac can contain 1000 tarantulas, how many baby tarantula legs would be in one less than 5 egg sacs?
A: One less than 5 is 5 - 1 = 4. If one tarantula egg sac can contain 1000 tarantulas, then four egg sacs can hold 4 * 1000 = 4000 tarantula babies. If each tarantula baby has eight legs, the 4 egg sacs can contain 4000 * 8 = 32,000 baby tarantula legs. The answer is 32000.
Question: Simon wanted to buy flowers that his mom could plant for Mother's Day. The garden center was offering 10% off all purchases. He bought 5 pansies at $2.50 each, one hydrangea that cost $12.50 and 5 petunias that cost $1.00 each. If he paid with a $50 bill, how much change would Simon receive back from his purchase?
Answer: 5 pansies at $2.50 each is 5 * 2.50 = $12.50. 5 petunias at $1.00 each 5 * 1 = $5.00. All total he spends 12.50 + 12.50 + 5.00 = $30.00. The sale is 10% off so 30 * .10 = $3.00. The purchase total now comes to 30 - 3 = $27.00. He pays with a $50 bill so 50 - 27 = $23.00. The answer is 23.
Q: Janice opened an art book that she had found in the library and found 5 drawings on the first page. After opening the first ten pages, she realized that the number of drawings on each page increased by five after every page. How many drawings were in the first five pages?
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If the first page had 5 drawings, and the number of drawings on each page increased by five, the second page had 5 + 5 = 10. The total number of drawings in the first 2 pages is 5 + 10 = 15. On the third page, the number of drawings increased to 10 + 5 = 15. The first three pages have a total of 15 + 15 = 30 drawings. The fourth page had 15 + 5 = 20 drawings. There are 30 + 20 = 50 drawings on the first four pages. The fifth page also had an extra 5 more drawings than the fourth page, totaling 20 + 5 = 25. For the first five pages, Janice saw 25 + 50 = 75 pages. The answer is 75.