[Question]A desert has 3/5 fewer palm trees than a nearby forest, which has 5000 palm trees. How many palm trees are there in both the desert and the forest combined?
[Answer]The desert has 3 / 5 fewer palm trees than the forest, and since the forest has 5000 palm trees, the desert has 3 / 5 * 5000 = 3000 fewer palm trees. The total number of palm trees in the desert is 5000 - 3000 = 2000. Together, the desert and the forest have a total of 5000 + 2000 = 7000 palm trees. The answer is 7000.
Q: Isabella has $45 more than Sam but only $15 more than Giselle. If Giselle has $120, calculate the total amount of money each shopper will receive if Isabella, Sam, and Giselle donate the money to three shoppers at their local town's supermarket who then decides to share it equally.
A: If Isabella has $15 more than Giselle, she has $120 + $15 = $135. Combined, Isabella and Giselle has $135 + $120 = $255. Isabella has $45 more than Sam, meaning Sam has $135 - $45 = $90. Together, Sam, Isabella, and Giselle has $255 + $90 = $345. if they donate the money to three shoppers at their local town's supermarket who share it equally, each shopper will receive $345 / 3 = $115. The answer is 115.
Question: Carl is having a party on Saturday and is inviting 15 guests. He would like to make sure everyone, including himself, has at least 2 glasses of punch. Each glass holds 12 ounces of punch. How many ounces of punch does he need to buy for the party?
Answer: Including Carl, there will be 15 + 1 = 16 people at the party. Carl would like each person to be able to have 2 cups x 12 ounces = 24 ounces of punch. Carl needs to buy 16 x 24 = 384 ounces of punch. The answer is 384.
[Question]The total age of the people in Kaydence's family is 200. If Kaydence's father is 60 years old, Kaydence's mother 2 years younger than Kaydence's father, Kaydence's brother 1/2 the age of Kaydence's father, and Kaydence's sister 40 years old, how old is Kaydence?
[Answer]If Kaydence's father is 60 years old, her mother is 60 - 2 = 58 years old. The total age of the mother and father is 60 + 58 = 118 years. Kaydence's brother is half the father's age, which is 1 / 2 * 60 = 30 years. The total age of Kaydence's father, mother, and brother is 30 + 118 = 148 years. If you add Kaydence's sister's age to the total age of the father, mother, and brother, you get 148 + 40 = 188 years. If everyone's age in the family is 200, then Kaydence's age is 200 - 188 = 12 years old. The answer is 12.
Q: Boston had .5 feet of snow on the first day of winter. The next day they got an additional 8 inches. Over the next 2 days, 2 inches of the snow melted. On the fifth day, they received another 2 times the amount of snow they received on the first day. How many feet of snow do they now have?
A: 12 inches is 1 foot and they received a .5 foot of snow on the first day so they received 12 * .5 = 6 inches of snow. The first day they had 6 inches and then received another 8 inches for a total of 6 + 8 = 14 inches. 2 inches melted from their 14 inches so that leaves 14 - 2 = 12 inches of snow. They received 2 times the amount as the first day's 6 inches of snow so that's 2 * 6 = 12 inches of snow. So they had 12 inches of snow and received another 12 inches of snow for a total of 12 + 12 = 24 inches. 12 inches is 1 foot and they have 24 inches of snow so they have 24 / 12 = 2 feet of snow. The answer is 2.
Question: Romeo buys five bars of chocolate at $5 each and sells these chocolates for a total of $90. If he uses packaging material that costs him $2 for each bar of chocolate, how much profit does he make for all the chocolates he sells?
Answer:
The selling price for each bar of chocolate is 90 / 5 = $18. The profit for each bar of chocolate is 18 - 5 - 2 = $11. The total profit is 11 * 5 = $55. The answer is 55.