Q: Kalani has twenty candles in her bedroom, twice the number of candles in the living room. Donovan, her brother, brings in 20 more candles he bought from the candle shop. What's the total number of candles in the house?
A: If the number of candles in the bedroom is twice the number in the living room, there are 20 / 2 = 10 candles in the living room. When Donovan brings in 20 more candles, the total number of candles becomes 10 + 20 + 20 = 50. The answer is 50.
Question: When all her clothes are washed and in her closet, Brie has 12 blouses, 6 skirts, and 8 slacks. Today in her hamper, she has 75% of her blouses, 50% of her skirts, and 25% of her slacks. How many pieces of clothing will she need to put in the washer?
Answer: In her hamper, Brie has 12 x 75% = 9 blouses. In her hamper, she has 6 x 50% = 3 skirts. In the hamper, she has 8 x 25% = 2 slacks. She will need to wash 9 + 3 + 2 = 14 pieces of clothes. The answer is 14.
[Question]Tom got 40 oranges and 70 apples. If he sold 1/4 of the oranges and 1/2 of the apples. How many fruits were left in total?
[Answer]There are 40 + 70 = 110 oranges and apples altogether . He sold 40 x .25 = 10 pieces of oranges. He sold 70 x .50 = 35 pieces of apples. So, Tom was left with 110 - 10 - 35 = 65 pieces. The answer is 65.
Q: Farmer Red has three milk cows: Bess, Brownie, and Daisy. Bess, the smallest cow, gives him two pails of milk every day. Brownie, the largest cow, produces three times that amount. Then Daisy makes one pail more than Bess. How many pails of milk does Farmer Red get from them each week?
A: Bess produces 2 pails every day. Brownie produces 3 times as much * 2 = 6 pails every day. Daisy produces 2 + 1 more pail than Bess = 3 pails every day. Bess, Brownie, and Daisy together produce 2 + 6 + 3 = 11 pails every day. A week is 7 days, so Farmer Red gets 11 * 7 = 77 pails each week. The answer is 77.
Question: A baker is making bread according to a recipe that requires him to use 3 eggs for every 2 cups of flour. If the baker wants to use up the 6 cups of flour he has remaining in his pantry, how many eggs will he need to use?
Answer: If he uses 6 cups of flour, the baker will be making 6 / 2 = 3 times the normal amount that the recipe describes. Thus, he must use 3 * 3 = 9 eggs. The answer is 9.
Q: Ali, Peter, and Joey were fishing. The fish Ali caught weighed, in sum, twice as much as the fish that Peter caught. Joey caught 1 kg more fish than Peter. Together the three of them caught 25 kg of fish. How many kilograms did Ali catch?
A:
Let x be the weight of the fish that Peter caught. Then Ali and Joey caught 2 * x and x + 1 kg of fish, respectively. So, x + 2 * x + x + 1 = 25. So, 4 * x = 25 - 1 = 24. So, x = 6. Therefore, Ali caught 2 * x = 2 * 6 = 12 kg of fish. The answer is 12.