Q: Tara has a shoebox that is 4 inches tall and 6 inches wide. She puts a square block inside that is 4 inches per side. How many square inches of the box are left uncovered?
A: The shoebox is 24 square inches because 4 x 6 = 24. The block is 16 square inches because 4 x 4 = 16. There are 8 square inches uncovered because 24 - 16 = 8. The answer is 8.
Question: Emmalyn decided to paint fences in her neighborhood for twenty cents per meter. If there were 50 fences in the neighborhood that she had to paint and each fence was 500 meters long, calculate the total amount she earned from painting the fences.
Answer: The total length for the fifty fences is 50 * 500 = 25000 meters. If Emmalyn charged twenty cents to paint a meter of a fence, the total income she got from painting the fences is $0.20 * 25000 = $5000. The answer is 5000.
[Question]Luisa drives 10 miles to the grocery store, 6 miles to the mall, 5 miles to the pet store, then 9 miles back home. One gallon of gas can be used to drive 15 miles. If one gallon of gas costs $3.50, what is the total cost of the gas for Luisa's entire trip?
[Answer]Luisa drives a total of 10 + 6 + 5 + 9 = 30 miles. Luisa uses 30 / 15 = 2 gallons of gas for her trip. The total cost of the gas for Luisa's trip is 2 * $3.50 = $7. The answer is 7.
Q: Boris has 24 books and he donates a fourth of his books to the library. Cameron has 30 books and he donates a third of his books to the library. After donating their books, how many books in total do Boris and Cameron have together?
A: Boris donates 24 / 4 = 6 books. Then Boris has a total of 24 - 6 = 18 books. Cameron donates 30 / 3 = 10 books. Then Cameron has a total of 30 - 10 = 20 books. Altogether, Boris and Cameron have 18 + 20 = 38 books. The answer is 38.
Question: Cameron guides tour groups in a museum. He usually answers two questions per tourist. Today, he did four tours. The early morning first group was only 6 people. The following group was a busy group of 11. The third group had 8 people, but one was inquisitive and asked three times as many questions as usual. The last group of the day was a late group of 7. How many questions did Cameron answer?
Answer: Cameron answered 2 * 6 = 12 questions for the first group. He answered 2 * 11 = 22 questions for the second group. The third group had 8 - 1 = 7 tourists that asked 2 questions each. The third group also had 1 tourist that asked 2 * 3 = 6 questions. Thus, the third group asked 7 * 2 + 6 = 14 + 6 = 20 questions. The last group asked 7 * 2 = 14 questions. For all four tours, Cameron answered 12 + 22 + 20 + 14 = 68 questions. The answer is 68.
Q: Barbara got a great deal on a new chest of drawers, but she has to take a lot of paper out of the drawers to be able to use it. She found 3 bundles of colored paper, 2 bunches of white paper, and 5 heaps of scrap paper. If a bunch holds 4 sheets of paper, a bundle holds 2 sheets of paper, and a heap holds 20 sheets of paper, how many sheets of paper did Barbara remove from the chest of drawers?
A:
Of the colored paper, Barbara removed 3 * 2 = 6 sheets of paper. Of the white paper, she removed 2 * 4 = 8 sheets of paper. Of the scrap paper, she removed 5 * 20 = 100 sheets of paper. So in total, Barbara removed 6 + 8 + 100 = 114 sheets of paper. The answer is 114.