Q: Holly wants to plant a wall of privacy trees along her fence line. Her fence is 25 yards long. At maturity, the trees she wants to plant will measure 1.5 feet wide. Right now, these trees are on sale for $8.00 apiece. How much will it cost her to plant a row of the trees to run the length of her fence?
A: 3 feet are in 1 yard and her fence is 25 yards long so her fence is 3 * 25 = 75 feet long. At maturity these trees will measure 1.5 feet and she needs them to run along her 75 - foot fence so she needs 75 / 1.5 = 50 trees. The trees cost $8.00 apiece and she needs 50 so 8 * 50 = $400.00 worth of trees. The answer is 400.
Question: Sedrach has 13 apple pies. If every apple pie can be quickly divided into halves and every half an apple pie can be split into 5 bite-size samples, how many people can taste Sedrach's apple pie if he divides them all into bite-size samples?
Answer: Every apple pie has 5 x 2 = 10 bite sizes. 13 x 10 = 130 people can taste Sedrach's apple pies. The answer is 130.
[Question]It's Yvette's turn to treat herself and her three best friends to a round of ice cream sundaes. Alicia orders the peanut butter sundae for $7.50. Brant orders the Royal banana split sundae for $10.00. Josh orders the death by chocolate sundae for $8.50 and Yvette orders the cherry jubilee sundae for $9.00. She leaves her waiter a 20% tip. How much will her final bill be?
[Answer]Yvette spent 7.50 + 10 + 8.5 + 9 = $35.00 on ice cream sundaes. Her bill comes to $35.00 and she leaves a 20% tip for the waiter so that's 35 * .20 = $7.00. The bill was $35.00 and she added a $7.00 tip for a total of 35 + 7 = $42.00. The answer is 42.
Q: An entrepreneur is crowdfunding a new business effort. He has three different dollar amount levels of financial backing options and each level is ten times as high as the previous one. He needs to raise $12000 to get his business off the ground. He succeeded after getting two backers at the highest level of financial backing, three at the second level, and ten at the lowest level. How many dollars was the highest level of financial backing?
A: Let L represent the lowest level of financial backing. Thus, the second level is 10L and the highest level is 10 * 10L = 100L. The entrepreneur got 2 highest level backers, 3 second level backers, and 10 lowest level backers, so 2 * 100L + 3 * 10L + 10L = 200L + 30L + 10L = 240L = $12000. Therefore, the lowest level of financial backing was L = 12000 / 240 = $50. Thus, the highest level of financial backing was 10 * 10 * 50 = $5000. The answer is 5000.
Question: John received 20 gifts on his 12th birthday. He received 8 fewer gifts on his 13th birthday. How many total gifts did he receive between those two birthdays?
Answer: He got 20 - 8 = 12 gifts on his 13th birthday. So he got 20 + 12 = 32 total gifts. The answer is 32.
Q: There are 30 different nuts in a bowl. If 5/6 of the nuts were eaten, how many nuts were left?
A:
30 x 5 / 6 = 25 nuts were eaten. Thus, 30 - 25 = 5 nuts were left. The answer is 5.