[Question]Vaishali wears a beautiful piece of clothing called a Saree, a traditional Indian dress for women. It is mostly tangerine-colored, with blue, brown, and gold-colored decorative stripes. There are three times as many gold stripes as brown stripes, and five times as many blue stripes as gold stripes. If there are 4 brown stripes, how many blue stripes does Vaishali's Saree have?
[Answer]With 3 times as many gold stripes as brown stripes, this means there are 3 * 4 = 12 gold stripes. With five times as many blue stripes as gold stripes, this means there are 5 * 12 = 60 blue stripes. The answer is 60.
Q: June made a design with 20 equal tiles. Three tiles are yellow and the number of blue tiles is one more than the number of yellow tiles. Six tiles are purple and the remaining tiles are white. How many white tiles are there?
A: There are 3 + 1 = 4 blue tiles. There are a total of 3 + 4 + 6 = 13 tiles are yellow, blue, and purple. Hence, 20 - 13 = 7 tiles are white. The answer is 7.
Question: Jackson wants to go on a shopping spree, so his mom says she will give him some spending money if he does extra chores. She promises $5 per hour spent on chores. Jackson spends 2 hours vacuuming, and decides to do this twice. He also spends 0.5 hours washing dishes, and three times as long cleaning the bathroom. How much spending money has Jackson earned?
Answer: Jackson spent a total of 2 * 2 = 4 hours vacuuming. This means he earned 4 * $5 = 20 dollars from vacuuming. He earned 0.5 * $5 = 2.5 dollars from washing dishes. Cleaning the bathroom took three times as long as the dishes, so he spent 0.5 * 3 = 1.5 hours in the bathroom. This means he earned 1.5 * $5 = $7.5 from cleaning the bathroom. In total, he has earned $20 + $2.5 + $7.5 = $30. The answer is 30.
[Question]Roberto is raising chickens for eggs. He buys 4 chickens for $20 each. They cost $1 in total a week to feed and each produces 3 eggs a week that will last forever. He used to buy 1 dozen eggs a week and spent $2 per dozen. After how many weeks will the chickens be cheaper than buying his eggs?
[Answer]The chickens cost $80 because 4 x 20 = 80. His chickens produce a dozen eggs a week because 4 x 3 = 12. Each week that he has chickens is $1 cheaper than buying eggs because 2 - 1 = 1. After 80 weeks his chickens will be paid off because 80 / 1 = 80. After 81 weeks the chickens will be cheaper than buying eggs because 80 + 1 = 81. The answer is 81.
Q: Pat's computer password is made up of several kinds of alphanumeric and symbol characters for security. He uses a string of eight random lowercase letters, a string half that length of alternating upper case letters and numbers, and one symbol on each end of the password. How many characters in all is Pat's computer password?
A: The second string of characters is half as long as the first string, so it is 8 / 2 = 4 characters long. The password has one symbol on each end, so it has 1 * 2 = 2 symbol characters. In all, Pat's computer password is 8 + 4 + 2 = 14 characters long. The answer is 14.
Question: Andrew installed hardwood flooring in his house. His bedroom took eight wooden planks, his living room took twenty planks, and his kitchen took eleven planks. The guest bedroom took two fewer planks than Andrew's bedroom, and each of his two hallways took four planks. He accidentally ruined three planks in each bedroom by dragging furniture over them and had to replace them. He ended up with six leftover planks at the end. How many wooden planks did Andrew buy to start with?
Answer:
Andrew's guest bedroom took 8 - 2 = 6 wooden planks. His hallways took 2 * 4 = 8 planks. In two bedrooms, he ruined 3 planks each, so the bedrooms took an extra 3 * 2 = 6 planks. In all, he used 8 + 20 + 11 + 6 + 8 + 6 = 59 planks for his whole house. Andrew had 6 leftover planks, so he bought 59 + 6 = 65 wooden planks to start with. The answer is 65.