[Question]Tom bought 10 packages of miniature racing cars. Each package contains five cars. He gave each of his two nephews 1/5 of the cars. How many miniature racing cars are left with Tom?
[Answer]Tom had 10 x 5 = 50 miniature racing cars. Tom gave 50 x 1 / 5 = 10 miniature racing cars to each of his two nephews. So, he gave a total of 10 x 2 = 20 cars to his two nephews. Therefore, Tom is left with 50 - 20 = 30 miniature racing cars. The answer is 30.
Q: Mary has a mystery book library. She started with 72 mystery books at the beginning of the year. She joined a book club that sent her 1 book each month of the year. She went to a bookstore halfway through the year and bought 5 more books, then bought 2 books at yard sales later. Her daughter gave her another book for her birthday, and her mother gave her a series of 4 books when Mary visited her. She donated 12 books she didn't want to read again to a charity shop and sold 3 to a used book store. How many books did she have at the end of the year?
A: Mary got 1 * 12 = 12 books from the book club. She bought 5 + 2 = 7 books. She was given 1 + 4 = 5 books. She got rid of 12 + 3 = 15 books. Thus, at the end of the year she had 72 + 12 + 7 + 5 - 15 = 81 books. The answer is 81.
Question: Rose bought her mother one dozen flowers. Two of the flowers are daisies. Three-fifths of the remaining flowers are tulips and the rest are sunflowers. How many sunflowers are there?
Answer: One dozen of flowers is equal to 1 x 12 = 12 flowers. There are 12 - 2 = 10 flowers that are not daisies. So, 10 x 3 / 5 = 6 of the flowers are tulips. Therefore, there are 10 - 6 = 4 sunflowers. The answer is 4.
[Question]Stella collects stamps. She counted 50 pages in her collector's album. There are 5 rows of 30 stamps in each of the first 10 pages of her album. The rest of the pages each have 50 stamps. How many stamps are in Stella's album?
[Answer]There are 30 x 5 = 150 stamps on each of the first 10 pages. So she has a total of 150 x 10 = 1500 stamps in the first 10 pages. There are 50 - 10 = 40 pages that have 50 stamps each. There is a total of 40 x 50 = 2000 stamps in the remaining 40 pages. Therefore, Stella has 2000 + 1500 = 3500 stamps in her album. The answer is 3500.
Q: Matthias has 40 soccer balls and 15 basketballs. 30 soccer balls and 7 basketballs have a hole in them. How many balls in total does Matthias have without holes in them?
A: Matthias has 40 - 30 = 10 soccer balls without holes. Matthias has 15 - 7 = 8 basketballs without holes. A total of 10 + 8 = 18 balls do not have holes. The answer is 18.
Question: Lorenzo put three full cans of thumbtacks into his pocket and went off to work at the corkboard factory. It was Lorenzo's job, as head of quality control, to test every cork board for its ability to hold thumbtacks. He placed one thumbtack from each of the three cans of thumbtacks into every board tested. At the end of the day, he had tested 120 boards and had 30 tacks remaining in each of the three cans. What was the total combined number of thumbtacks from the three full cans?
Answer:
At the end of the day, he had tested 120 boards, each with three tacks, for a total of 3 * 120 = 360 tacks. He had 30 tacks remaining in each of the three cans, for an additional 3 * 30 = 90 thumbs tacks. Therefore, the original total combined number of thumbtacks in the three full cans of thumbtacks was 360 + 90 = 450 thumbtacks. The answer is 450.