Q: At a softball game, three players are having a sunflower eating contest. The first player eats 78 seeds. The second eats 53 seeds. The third eats 30 more seeds than the second. How many do they eat in total?
A: The third player eats 83 seeds because 53 + 30 = 83. They eat 214 in total because 78 + 53 + 83 = 214. The answer is 214.
Question: A bottle of wine costs $20.00 today. When new tariffs are imposed in 2 months, the price of wine will increase by 25%. How much more expensive will 5 bottles of wine be in 2 months?
Answer: Today, 5 bottles of $20.00 wine will cost 5 * 20 = $100.00. In 2 months there will be a 25% tariff on the 5 bottles of wine that cost $100.00 so that makes the 5 bottles .25 * 100 = $25.00 more expensive. The answer is 25.
[Question]Zach baked cookies for a bake sale. On Monday he baked 32 cookies. On Tuesday he ran out of sugar and could only bake half of the number of cookies he baked the day before. On Wednesday he baked three times the number of cookies he did on Tuesday, but his brother ate 4 of those cookies. How many cookies did he have at the end of the three days?
[Answer]On Tuesday he made 32 / 2 = 16 cookies. On Wednesday he made 16 * 3 = 48 cookies. Before his brother ate some he had 32 + 16 + 48 = 96 cookies. After his brother ate some he had 96 - 4 = 92 cookies. The answer is 92.
Q: On national lipstick day, half of the students who attended class wore colored lipstick. Of those students who wore lipstick, one quarter wore red lipstick. There were one-fifth as many students wearing blue lipstick as were wearing red lipstick. If 200 students attended school that day, how many wore blue lipstick?
A: Of 200 students who attended class, half wore colored lipstick, or 200 / 2 = 100 students wore colored lipstick. Of those students who wore lipstick, one quarter wore red lipstick, or 100 / 4 = 25 students wore red lipstick. Since there were one - fifth as many students wearing blue lipstick as were wearing red lipstick, then 25 / 5 = 5 students wore blue lipstick. The answer is 5.
Question: James wants to build a ladder to climb a very tall tree. Each rung of the ladder is 18 inches long and they are 6 inches apart. If he needs to climb 50 feet how many feet of wood will he need for the rungs?
Answer: He needs 12 / 6 = 2 rungs per foot. So he needs 50 * 2 = 100 rungs. Each rung is 18 / 12 = 1.5 feet. So he needs 1.5 * 100 = 150 feet. The answer is 150.
Q: Xavier needs 84 paper plates for a housewarming party. He already has 21 green plates and 28 red plates. How many more plates should Xavier buy?
A:
The total number of green and red plates is 28 + 21 = 49. Xavier should buy 84 49 = 35 more plates. The answer is 35.