Question: On Blacks, Martha goes to the mall to buy clothes on sale. For every 2 jackets she buys, she gets 1 free jacket. For every 3 t-shirts she buys, she gets 1 free t-shirt. Martha decides to buy 4 jackets and 9 t-shirts. How many clothes will she take home?
Answer: For buying 4 jackets Martha gets 4 jackets / 2 = 2 jackets for free. For buying 9 t - shirts, Martha gets 9 t - shirts / 3 = 3 t - shirts for free. Adding the free jackets, Martha gets 4 jackets + 2 jackets = 6 jackets. Adding the free t - shirts, Martha gets 9 t - shirts + 3 t - shirts = 12 t - shirts. In total, Martha will take home 6 jackets + 12 t - shirts = 18 clothes. The answer is 18.
[Question]Bill is a painter who is hired to paint a client's house. The house has three bedrooms, and twice as many other rooms as bedrooms. The client wants each bedroom painted a different color, and the other rooms painted white. Each room takes 2 gallons of paint. Color paint comes in 1-gallon paint cans, and white paint comes in 3-gallon cans. How many cans of paint will Bill need for the whole house?
[Answer]Bill needs 2 * 3 = 6 gallons of color paint for the 3 bedrooms. Thus, he needs 6 / 1 = 6 cans of color paint for the bedrooms. There are 2 * 3 = 6 other rooms in the house. He needs 2 * 6 = 12 gallons of white paint for the other rooms. Thus, he needs 12 / 3 = 4 cans of white paint. In all, Bill needs 4 + 6 = 10 cans of paint for the whole house. The answer is 10.
Q: Steve writes a letter every 3rd day to his friend. He spends 20 minutes writing the letters. It takes 10 minutes to write 1 page. He also writes a long letter at the end of the month which he puts more thought into. It takes twice as long per page but he spends 80 minutes writing. How many pages does he write a month?
A: He writes 30 / 3 = 10 normal letters. Each letter is 20 / 10 = 2 pages. So that is 2 * 10 = 20 pages. His long letter takes 2 * 10 = 20 minutes per page. So it is 80 / 20 = 4 pages. So he writes 20 + 4 = 24 pages. The answer is 24.
Question: A school has 100 students. Half of the students are girls, the other half are boys. 20% of the girls have dogs at home and 10% of the boys have dogs at home. How many students own dogs?
Answer: Out of 100 students, half are girls and half are boys so there are 100 / 2 = 50 girls. There are 50 girls out of 100 students means there are 100 - 50 = 50 boys. 20% of the 50 girls have dogs so they have .20 * 50 = 10 dogs. 10% of the 50 boys have dogs so they have .10 * 50 = 5 dogs. The girls have 10 dogs and the boys have 5 dogs so together, they have 10 + 5 = 15 dogs. The answer is 15.
[Question]It takes Emmalyn and her research team, the Polar Bears, 30 minutes to fully navigate around a volcanic island. On Saturday, they decided to start off by rounding the island once. They then re-grouped and planned out the rest of their weekend research schedule. They completed 10 more round that day and then went home. When they came on Sunday, they were able to complete 15 rounds. Calculate the total time, in minutes, the Polar Bears spent circling the island over that weekend.
[Answer]On the first day, they started off doing one round of 30 minutes. The team did ten more rounds on day one which took 10 * 30 = 300 minutes. The total time they took circumnavigating the land on the first day is 300 + 30 = 330 minutes. On the second day, they did 15 rounds, which took 30 minutes each, giving 15 * 30 = 450 minutes. The total number of rounds took 330 + 450 = 780 minutes. The answer is 780.
[Question]Jackson and Brandon both invest $500 in the stock market. Jackson's investment quadruples in value, while Brandon's is reduced to 20% of the initial value. How much more money does Jackson have than Brandon now?
[Answer]
First find the end value of Jackson's investment: $500 * 4 = $2000. Then find the end value of Brandon's investment: 20% * $500 = $100. Then subtract the value of Brandon's investment from the value of Jackson's investment to find the difference: $2000 - $100 = $1900. The answer is 1900.