Answer this question:A firefighter's hose can deliver 20 gallons of water per minute. For a building fire that requires 4000 gallons of water to put out, how long will it take, in minutes, for a team of 5 firefighters, each with their own hose, to put out the fire?
A team of 5 firefighters with hoses can deliver 5 * 20 = 100 gallons of water per minute. To deliver 4000 gallons, this team will take 4000 / 100 = 40 minutes to extinguish the fire.
The answer is 40.

Answer this question:Georgina owns a parrot and is teaching it to speak. So far, the parrot knows seventeen phrases. If she is teaching it two phrases a week and it already knew three phrases when she bought it, how many days has Georgina had it?
The parrot knew 3 phrases when Georgina bought it, so it has learned 17 - 3 = 14 phrases from her. She has been teaching it 2 phrases a week, so she has had it 14 / 2 = 7 weeks. There are 7 days in a week, so Georgina has had the parrot for 7 * 7 = 49 days.
The answer is 49.

Answer this question:Spot sells cookies in bags and boxes. Each bag has 7 cookies. Each box has 12 cookies. How many more cookies are in 8 boxes than there are in 9 bags?
The total number of cookies in 8 boxes is 8 boxes * 12 cookies / box = 96 cookies. The total number of cookies in 9 bags is 9 bags * 7 cookies / bags = 63 cookies. There are 96 - 63 = 33 more cookies in the boxes than in the bags.
The answer is 33.

Answer this question:Marcy is the lunch monitor in an elementary school cafeteria. She gives 5 time-outs for running, 1 less than five times that number of time-outs for throwing food, and 1/3 the number of food-throwing time-outs for swearing. If each time-out is 5 minutes, how much time do the students spend in time-out total?
First multiply the number of running time - outs by 5: 5 time - outs * 5 = 25 time - outs. Then subtract 1 from that number to find the number of food - throwing time - outs: 25 time - outs - 1 = 24 time - outs. Then divide that number by 3 to find the number of swearing time - outs: 24 time - outs / 3 = 8 time - outs. Then add the number of each kind of time - out to find the total number: 8 time - outs + 24 time - outs + 5 time - outs = 37 time - outs. Then multiply that number by the length of each time - out to find the total time the students spend in time - out: 37 time - outs * 5 minutes / time - out = 185 minutes.
The answer is 185.