Q: Carl is hosting an open house for his new business. He knows 50 people will show up and hopes that another 40 people will randomly show up. He's created 10 extravagant gift bags for the first 10 people who visit his shop. He's made average gift bags for 20 people but needs to make enough for everyone who visits to have one. How many more bags does he need to make?
A: He knows 50 people are showing up and he's hoping 40 more people will drop in for a total of 50 + 40 = 90 people. He's made 10 extravagant gift bags and 20 average bags for a total of 10 + 20 = 30 bags. He hopes 90 people will show up and has already made 30 bags so he needs to make 90 - 30 = 60 more gift bags. The answer is 60.
Question: A man decides to try and do everything off his bucket list while he is still young and fit enough to finish it all. One of his goals was to climb the seven summits. He realizes first he has to get in shape to do it and it takes him 2 years of working out to get healthy enough to take up mountain climbing. He then spends twice that long learning how to be a technically proficient mountain climber. After that he starts with the simplest mountain on the list and climbs them all. He spends 5 months climbing each mountain. After that he takes 13 months learning to dive and dives through all the caves he wants in 2 years. How much time did it take to get through all these goals?
Answer: He spent 2 * 2 = 4 years learning to climb. He spends 5 * 7 = 35 months climbing all 7 mountains. After a 13 month break, he starts diving so that is 35 + 13 = 48 months. That means it is 48 / 12 = 4 years. So in total it all took 2 + 4 + 4 + 2 = 12 years. The answer is 12.
[Question]Martha met Ellen in the grocery store alone and asked her age. Martha realized she was twice as old as Ellen will be in six years. If Ellen is 10 years old now, calculate Martha's age now.
[Answer]In six years, Ellen will be 10 + 6 = 16 years old. If Martha is twice Ellen's age in six years, she is 2 * 16 = 32 years. The answer is 32.
Q: Tommy has 3 toy cars. His neighbor, Jessie, has 3 cars too. Jessie's older brother has 5 more cars than Tommy and Jessie. How many cars do the three of them have altogether?
A: Tommy and Jessie have 3 + 3 = 6 cars. Jessie's brother has 5 + 6 = 11 cars. Altogether, they have 6 + 11 = 17 cars. The answer is 17.
Question: George had $100. He bought a shirt for $24 and he also bought a pair of socks. Then he had $65 left. How much is a pair of socks?
Answer: George had $100 - $24 = $76 left after buying a shirt. Since he has $65 left after buying a pair of socks, then a pair of socks costs $76 - $65 = $11. The answer is 11.
Q: Keaton climbed a 30 feet ladder twenty times while working at the construction site. Reece, also working at the same site, climbed a ladder 4 feet shorter than Keaton's ladder 15 times. What's the total length of the ladders that both workers climbed in inches?
A:
If Keaton climbed his ladder twenty times, he covered a length of 30 * 20 = 600 feet. Reece's ladder, 4 feet shorter than Keaton's ladder, was 30 - 4 = 26 feet long. If Reece climbed the ladder 15 times, he covered a length of 15 * 26 = 390 feet. Keaton and Reece's total length covered while climbing the ladders is 390 + 600 = 990 feet. Since one foot is equal to 12 inches, the total length they climbed the ladders in inches is 12 * 990 = 11880 inches. The answer is 11880.