Q: Wanda has 62 crayons. Dina has 28 and Jacob has two fewer crayons than Dina. How many crayons do they have in total?
A: Jacob has 28 - 2 = 26 crayons. You can find the total number of crayons by adding the number of crayons each person has: 26 crayons + 62 crayons + 28 crayons = 116 crayons. The answer is 116.
Question: Maisy has been offered a new job and now has the option of continuing to work at her current job or take the new job. Her current job is 8 hours a week with a wage of $10 per hour. The new job is offering 4 hours a week with a wage of $15 per hour with an additional bonus of $35 per week if she exceeds her quota. Maisy is confident that she will exceed her quota and decides to include this when calculating her wage at the new job. How much more money, in dollars, will Maisy earn at her new job?
Answer: At her current job, Maisy earns 8 hours * $10 per hour = $80. At her new job, she would earn 4 hours * $15 per hour = $60. Including her bonus, her new job would pay $60 wage + $35 bonus = $95. So at her new job, she would earn an extra 95 80 = $15. The answer is 15.
[Question]One logger can cut down 6 trees per day. The forest is a rectangle measuring 4 miles by 6 miles, and each square mile has 600 trees. If there are 30 days in each month, how many months will it take 8 loggers to cut down all the trees?
[Answer]First find the total area of the forest: 4 miles * 6 miles = 24 square miles. Then find the total number of trees in that area: 600 trees / square mile * 24 square miles = 14400 trees. Then find the number of trees all the loggers can cut down in one day: 8 loggers * 6 trees / logger = 48 trees. Then divide the total number of trees by the number cut down per day to find the number of days it takes to clear the forest: 14400 trees / 48 trees / day = 300 days. Then divide the time in days by the number of days per month to find the time in months: 300 days / 30 days / month = 10 months. The answer is 10.
Q: On Black Friday a popular electronics store sells 327 televisions. This is 50 more than they sold last Black Friday. If this sales trend continues and they sell 50 more televisions each year for three years, how many televisions will they sell on Black Friday three years from now?
A: The electronics store sold 327 televisions this Black Friday and might sell 50 more televisions the next year, for a total of 327 + 50 = 377 televisions. The second year they might sell 377 + 50 = 427 televisions. The third year, if they continue to sell 50 more televisions than they did the previous year, they will sell 427 + 50 televisions = 477 televisions on the Black Friday three years from now. The answer is 477.
Question: A machine fills 150 cans of paint every 8 minutes. How many minutes does it take this machine to fill 675 cans?
Answer: To know how many groups of 150 cans there are in 675 cans, we calculate 675 150 = 4.5. For each of these groups, 8 minutes are needed, so it takes 8 4.5 = 36 minutes. The answer is 36.
Q: A new movie gets released and makes $120 million in the box office for its opening weekend. It ends up making 3.5 times that much during its entire run. If the production company gets to keep 60%, how much profit did they make if the movie cost $60 million to produce?
A:
Over the movies run it made 120 * 3.5 = 420 million. So the production company made 420,000,000 * .6 = $252,000,000. So they got a profit of 252,000,000 - 60,000,000 = $192,000,000. The answer is 192000000.