[Question]Carmen is preparing dinner plates for a row of customers at the counter in a diner. She likes to put a couple of sprigs of parsley on each plate for decoration. However, she is very low on parsley and doesn't have enough to even put 1 sprig on every plate, so she needs to break several of the parsley sprigs in two to make 2 smaller ones to stretch them out. If she decorates 8 plates with one whole parsley sprig and 12 plates with 1/2 a sprig each, how many sprigs of parsley does she have left if she started with 25?
[Answer]Carmen decorates 8 plates with 1 whole sprig of parsley, 8 plates x 1 parsley sprig each = 8 parsley sprigs. She also decorates 12 plates with 1 / 2 a sprig each, 12 x 1 / 2 = 6 parsley sprigs. She started with 25 parsley sprigs and has used 8 + 6 = 14 parsley sprigs. After using 14 parsley sprigs, she has 25 - 14 = 11 sprigs left. The answer is 11.

[Question]Jimmy is setting up a garden. He has three plots: one plot for green beans, one plot for carrots, and one plot for corn. Each corn plant produces 5 times as many servings of veggies as each carrot, and each green bean plant produces half as many servings as each corn plant. If each carrot produces 4 servings of vegetables, and each plot has 9 plants, how many servings of vegetables is Jimmy growing?
[Answer]First, find how many servings one corn plant produces by multiplying the number of carrot servings by 5: 4 servings * 5 = 20 servings. Then find how many servings one green bean plant produces by dividing the number of corn servings by two: 20 servings / 2 = 10 servings. Now multiply the number of servings per carrot plant by the number of carrot plants: 4 servings / plant * 9 plants = 36 servings. Do the same for corn: 20 servings / plant * 9 plants = 180 servings. And do the same for green beans: 10 servings / plant * 9 plants = 90 servings. Now add up the servings for all three types of plant: 36 servings + 180 servings + 90 servings = 306 servings. The answer is 306.

[Question]Danny has 3 bottles of soda. He drinks 90% of one bottle and gives 70% of the other two bottles to his friends. How much soda does Danny have left, expressed as a percentage of a bottle?
[Answer]First find how much soda Danny drank: 1 bottle * .9 = .9 bottles. Then find how much soda Danny gave to his friends: 2 friends * 1 bottle / friend * .7 = 1.4 bottles. Now subtract the soda drunk and given away to find the remaining amount of soda: 3 bottles - .9 bottles - 1.4 bottles = .7 bottles * 100% = 70%. The answer is 70.

[Question]A store owner buys clothes wholesale and adds 80% to the wholesale price to set the retail price. The retail price of a pair of pants is $36. What is the wholesale price?
[Answer]
Let X be the wholesale price. The retail price of a pair of pants is X + X * 80% = $36. Thus 1.8 * X = $36. Thus X = $36 / 1.8 = $20. The answer is 20.