Q: A local farmer is paying 4 kids to help plant rows of corn. Every row of corn contains 70 ears. A bag of corn seeds contains 48 seeds and you need 2 seeds per ear of corn. He pays the kids $1.5 per row. Afterward, the kids are so hungry that they end up spending half their money on dinner. The dinner cost $36 per kid. How many bags of corn seeds did each kid use?
A: The dinner cost $144 dollars because 4 x 36 = 144. The kids earned $288 in total because 144 x 2 = 288. They planted 192 rows of corn because 288 / 1.5 = 192. They planted 13,440 ears of corn in total because 192 x 70 = 13,440. They each planted 3,360 ears of corn because 13,440 / 4 = 3,360. They each planted 6,720 seeds because 3,360 x 2 = 6,720. They each used 140 bags of seeds because 6,720 / 48 = 140. The answer is 140.
Question: A monkey swings from branch to branch at an average distance of 1.2 meters per second. How far will a monkey swing in meters if it consistently swings from branches for 30 minutes?
Answer: If a monkey swings 1.2 meters a second then a monkey can swing 1.2 meters / second * 60 seconds / minute = 72 meters in a minute. If a monkey swings 72 meters in a minute then a monkey can swing 72 meters / min * 30 minutes = 2,160 meters in 30 minutes. The answer is 2160.
[Question]After working for Mrs. Jane, Jason was paid 60 more coins than Jayden. If Jayden received 300 coins, how many coins did Mrs. Jane give to the boys in total?
[Answer]If Jayden received 300 coins, 60 fewer than what Jason received, then Jason received 300 + 60 = 360. Altogether, the two boys received 360 + 300 = 660 coins. The answer is 660.
Q: Edith is a receptionist at a local office and is organizing files into cabinets. She had 60 files and finished organizing half of them this morning. She has another 15 files to organize in the afternoon and the rest of the files are missing. How many files are missing?
A: Edith has already organized 60 files / 2 = 30 files in the morning. She has files left to organize so she must still have 30 + 15 = 45 files in the office. This means there are 60 total files 45 organized files = 15 missing files. The answer is 15.
Question: Mrs. Gable's third grade class is on a field trip to the beach. For lunch, Mrs. Gable brought 20 lunches for the 20 students in her class. She included a pack of animal crackers in each lunch bag for dessert. Each pack of animal crackers contained 10 animal crackers. If 2 students did not eat their animal crackers, how many animal crackers were eaten in total among Mrs. Gable's students?
Answer: Since 2 students did not eat their animal crackers, 20 - 2 = 18 students ate their animal crackers. The students ate a total of 18 * 10 = 180 animal crackers. The answer is 180.
Q: Jake has $5000. He spends $2800 on a new motorcycle, and then spends half of what's left on a concert ticket. Jake then loses a fourth of what he has left. How much money does he have left?
A:
Jake has 5000 - 2800 = $2200 left. Jake has 2200 / 2 = $1100. Jake loses 1100 / 4 = $275. Jake has 1100 - 275 = $825 left. The answer is 825.