Question: Marissa has 4.5 feet of ribbon that she wants to use to tie some boxes. If 1 foot of ribbon is left after Marissa uses 0.7 feet of ribbon to tie each box, find out how many boxes she tied?
Answer: Marissa used a total of 4.5 - 1 = 3.5 feet of ribbon to the boxes. Thus, there were 3.5 / 0.7 = 5 boxes. The answer is 5.
[Question]A plane takes off at 6:00 a.m. and flies for 4 hours from New York City to Chicago. The plane stays at the port in Chicago for 1 hour and then departs for Miami. If the aircraft took three times as many hours to fly to Miami than it took to fly from New York to Chicago, calculate the total time to travel from New York to Miami.
[Answer]Before departing for Miami from Chicago, the total time the plane had taken for the journey is 4 + 1 = 5 hours. It took 3 * 4 = 12 hours to fly to Miami. . The total flying time from New York to Miami is 12 + 5 = 17 hours. The answer is 17.
Q: Luther designs clothes for a high fashion company. His latest line of clothing uses both silk and cashmere fabrics. There are ten pieces made with silk and half that number made with cashmere. If his latest line has thirteen pieces, how many pieces use a blend of cashmere and silk?
A: Luther has 10 / 2 = 5 pieces made with cashmere. He has 13 - 10 = 3 pieces made without silk using only cashmere. Thus, Luther has 5 - 3 = 2 pieces made using a blend of cashmere and silk. The answer is 2.
Question: Bill's take-home salary is $40,000. He pays $2,000 in property taxes, $3,000 in sales taxes, and 10% of his gross salary in income taxes. What is Bill's gross salary?
Answer: First, figure out how much Bill has before he pays property taxes: $40,000 + $2,000 = $42,000. Then, figure out how much Bill has before he pays sales taxes: $42,000 + $3,000 = $45,000. Next, figure out what percent of his salary Bill keeps after income tax: 100% - 10% = 90%. Now we know that .9g = $45,000, where g is Bill's gross salary. Now we can divide both sides of the equation by .9 to find that g = $50,000. The answer is 50000.
[Question]Jake buys 2-pound packages of sausages. He buys 3 of them and they are $4 a pound. How much does he pay?
[Answer]He bought 2 * 3 = 6 pounds of sausage. So they cost 6 * $4 = $24. The answer is 24.
[Question]In 10 years, Terry will be 4 times the age that Nora is currently. If Nora is currently 10 years old, how old is Terry now?
[Answer]
Terry will be 4 * 10 = 40 years old in 10 years. . Currently, Terry is 40 - 10 = 30 years old. The answer is 30.