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Question: Paul had 50 books. He went to a garage sale where they were selling mystery, science fiction, and romance books. The mystery books were on sale: buy 2, get 1 free. For the science fiction books, there was a 20% discount, and romance books cost their original price. Here are the prices of the books: - Myster...
Question: There are 350 pots in a garden. In each pot, there are x flowers and y sticks. The ratio of flowers to the total number of items in a pot is 3:5. In total, how many flowers are there in all pots? Answer: Let's denote the total number of items in a pot as T. According to the ratio given, for every 3 flowers, ...
Question: There are 20 baskets of peaches. In the odd-numbered baskets, there are 12 red peaches and 22 green peaches. In the even-numbered baskets, there are 15 red peaches and 20 green peaches. What is the difference between the total number of red peaches and green peaches in all baskets? Answer: First, let's calcu...
Question: Allan, Jake, and Sarah went to the park. Allan brought 5 balloons and Jake brought 4 balloons. Sarah did not bring any balloons but bought 7 balloons at the park. Allan then bought 3 more balloons and gave 2 of them to Jake. How many balloons did each person have at the end? Answer: At the beginning: - Allan...
Question: Rebecca is organizing a collection of objects into several groups. She has 57 eggs which she wants to split into groups of 7, 120 bananas to divide into groups of 10, and 248 marbles that she wants to split into groups of 8. How many groups will be created in total? Answer: To find out the total number of gr...
Question: The farmers harvested oranges and apples in their orchard. Over the course of 20 days, they harvested 56 sacks of oranges and 35 sacks of apples. If they harvested oranges every 2 days and apples every 3 days, how many sacks of oranges and apples were harvested per day on the days when these two fruits were h...
Question: Frank has 120 pieces of candy. He puts an equal number of candies in each bag, using between 5 to 8 bags. How many candies will be in each bag for each possible number of bags? Answer: To find out how many candies will be in each bag for each possible number of bags, we need to divide the total number of can...
Question: 8 people can ride the Ferris wheel in paradise park at the same time. If each seat on the Ferris wheel can hold 3 people. How many seats does the Ferris wheel have? Answer: If 8 people can ride the Ferris wheel at the same time and each seat can hold 3 people, we can find out the number of seats by dividing ...
Question: Jessica had 7 roses in the vase. She went to her flower garden, which had a total of 84 roses, and cut some roses. However, her friend Sarah, who initially gave her 15 roses, wanted 10 of the roses from the garden back. After giving Sarah her roses, Jessica put the remaining roses into the vase. There are now...
Question: Dan has $2. He bought a candy bar with a 25% discount, which originally cost $6, and a chocolate with a 10% discount, which originally cost $3. How much more money did he spend on the candy bar than he did on the chocolate after applying the discounts? Answer: First, let's calculate the discounted price of t...
Question: Every day, Ryan spends 2 hours on learning English, 5 hours on learning Chinese, 4 hours on learning Spanish, 3 hours on learning French, and 1.5 hours on learning German. How many more hours does he spend on learning Chinese and French combined than he does on learning German and Spanish combined? Answer: R...
Question: Let p be the number of pages per book, d be the number of days it takes Frank to finish each book, and t be the total number of days Frank spends reading all the books. We are given the following information: 1. p = 2a (where a is an integer, and p is an even number) 2. d = 3b (where b is an integer, and d i...
Question: Mom needs to buy at least 51 white t-shirts, but now the store sells mixed bundles of t-shirts containing white, black, and grey t-shirts in different sizes (S, M, L). Each bundle contains 6 t-shirts: 2 white, 2 black, and 2 grey. How many bundles must Mom buy to ensure she has a minimum of 51 white t-shirts?...
Question: At the arcade, Dave had won 53 tickets. If he used 31 to buy some toys and 14 more to buy some clothes. How many more tickets did Dave use to buy toys than he did to buy clothes? Answer: Dave used 31 tickets to buy toys and 14 tickets to buy clothes. To find out how many more tickets he used to buy toys than...
Question: Bobby initially had 250 pieces of candy and 175 pieces of chocolate. He ate 38 pieces of candy and then ate 36 more. After that, he shared 12 pieces of candy with his friends. Meanwhile, he ate 16 pieces of chocolate and bought 28 more. How many more pieces of candy than chocolate did Bobby have left? Answer...
Question: Rachel had to complete 10 pages of math homework and 3 more pages of reading homework than math homework. She spent a total of 4 hours studying for both subjects. If she spends the same amount of time on each page of math homework as she does on each page of reading homework, what is the average time she spen...
Question: Matthew had 29 crackers, 30 cakes, and 15 cookies. If Matthew gave equal numbers of crackers, cakes, and cookies to his 3 friends. How many cakes did each person eat? Answer: Matthew has 3 friends, and he wants to give an equal number of crackers, cakes, and cookies to each friend. First, let's divide the n...
Question: Jake has 13 fewer peaches, 3 more apples, and twice as many bananas as Steven. Steven has 9 peaches, 8 apples, and 4 bananas. Additionally, Jake and Steven received 10 grapes each from their neighbor. How many apples and bananas does Jake have, and how many grapes do Jake and Steven have combined? Answer: Le...
Question: Jake has 12 fewer peaches and 79 more apples than Steven. Steven has 19 peaches and 14 apples. Emily has twice as many peaches as Jake and 23 fewer apples than Steven. How many peaches does Jake have and how many apples does Emily have? Answer: Let's start by finding out how many peaches Jake has. Since Stev...
Question: A waiter is working at a restaurant that has 6 tables. Initially, there are 14 customers in total, seated in groups of various sizes. After 5 customers from one of the groups leave, the waiter needs to calculate the new average number of customers per table. If the updated groups have sizes of 3, 1, 2, and 4,...
Question: Every day Ryan spends 6 hours on learning English, 7 hours on learning Chinese, 4 hours on learning Spanish, and 5 hours on learning French. How many more hours does he spend on learning Chinese compared to the sum of the hours spent on learning English and Spanish? Answer: Ryan spends 6 hours on learning En...
Question: Helen the hippo and her friends are preparing for thanksgiving at Helen's house. Helen baked 527 chocolate chip cookies and 86 raisin cookies yesterday. Today, she decided to bake cookies in two batches. For the first batch, she used a 3:1 ratio of chocolate chip cookies to raisin cookies and baked a total of...
Question: A waiter had 25 customers. After some left, he still had 7 customers. How many more customers left than those that stayed behind? Answer: The waiter initially had 25 customers. After some left, he had 7 customers remaining. To find out how many customers left, we subtract the number of customers who stayed f...
Question: Every day for 20 days, Ryan spends 6 hours on learning English, 5 hours on learning Chinese, and 3 hours on learning Spanish. How many hours does he spend on learning English in all during these 20 days? Answer: To find out the total number of hours Ryan spends on learning English in 20 days, we need to mult...
Question: Julia played tag with 24 kids on Monday. If she played tag with 18 more kids on Monday than on Tuesday. How many kids did she play with on Tuesday? Answer: If Julia played tag with 18 more kids on Monday than on Tuesday, we can subtract 18 from the number of kids she played with on Monday to find out how man...
Question: Every day, Ryan spends a total of 5 hours on learning English, Chinese, and Spanish. If he spends 2 hours on learning English and 1.5 hours on learning Spanish, how many hours does he spend on learning Chinese? Answer: Ryan spends a total of 5 hours on learning the three languages. He spends 2 hours on Engli...
Question: Zachary did 19 push-ups in gym class today. David did 3 times more push-ups than Zachary. Next, John did 13 push-ups less than David. Robert did as many push-ups as Zachary and John combined. Michael did the difference of push-ups between John and Robert. How many push-ups did David do? Answer: If Zachary di...
Question: Initially, there were 4 people on Bus A and 7 people on Bus B. At the next stop, 13 more people got on Bus A, while 9 people got on Bus B. How many people are on both buses now? Answer: Initially, Bus A had 4 people and Bus B had 7 people. After the next stop, 13 more people got on Bus A, so now Bus A has: ...
Question: Over the course of 5 days, Jack received various emails in the morning, afternoon, and evening. The emails are categorized as work-related, personal, and spam. Here is the distribution of emails Jack received over the 5 days: Day 1: Morning: 3 work-related emails, 2 personal emails, and 1 spam email; After...
Question: Paul had a collection of 250 books, consisting of fantasy, romance, and science fiction novels. He decided to sell 35% of his fantasy novels, 50% of his romance novels, and leave his science fiction novels untouched. He had 80 fantasy novels, 120 romance novels, and 50 science fiction novels in his collection...
Question: Frank was reading through some books during his vacation. He started with a book that had 249 pages and he finished it in 3 days. Then he read a second book with 379 pages which took him 5 days to complete. After, he picked up a third book with 480 pages spending 6 days to finish it. Calculate the average num...
Question: Every day, Ryan spends 5 hours learning English, 6 hours learning Chinese, 4 hours learning French, and 3 hours learning Japanese. If he follows this routine for 10 days, how many hours does he spend on learning each language, and what is the total number of hours spent on all languages combined? Answer: To ...
Question: There were 16 roses and 3 orchids in the vase. Jessica cut some more roses and orchids from her flower garden. There are now 7 orchids and 31 roses in the vase. For every 3 orchids she cut, Jessica also cut 5 roses. How many orchids did she cut? Answer: Let's denote the number of orchids Jessica cut as O and...
Question: Danny collects bottle caps, wrappers, and buttons. He found 22 bottle caps, 30 wrappers, and 15 buttons at the park. Now he has 50 bottle caps, 75 wrappers, and 40 buttons in his collection. How many wrappers and buttons did Danny have at first? Answer: To find out how many wrappers and buttons Danny had at ...
Question: The Ferris wheel in Paradise Park has a total of 4 types of seats with varying capacities, arranged cyclically in the following order: a single seat, a double seat, a triple seat, and a quadruple seat. If 20 people can ride the Ferris wheel simultaneously, find out how many times the single seat, double seat,...
Question: Dave had 50 apps on his phone. After removing 10 apps, he added some more, eventually ending up with 100 apps on his phone. How many apps did he add? Answer: Dave started with 50 apps and removed 10, leaving him with 40 apps. He eventually ended up with 100 apps. To find out how many apps he added, we subtra...
Question: Melissa played 5 games and scored different points in each game. She scored 12 points in the first game, 17 points in the second game, twice as many points in the third game as she did in the second game, 9 points in the fourth game, and the fifth game had her scoring 3 more points than the fourth game. How m...
Question: Before starting to go jogging every day, Jessie weighed 69 kilograms. She lost 35 kilograms through jogging and additionally lost 10 kilograms by incorporating a new diet plan and gained 5 kilograms through a strength training program. What is Jessie's current weight considering all the changes? Answer: Jess...
Question: You have 104 dollars. How many packs of DVDs can you buy if each pack originally costs 26 dollars, but there is currently a 15% discount on the packs and an additional 8% sales tax applied to the discounted price? Answer: First, let's calculate the discounted price of each pack of DVDs. The original price ...
Question: During the harvest season, Lewis earns a weekly income that varies depending on his workload. In the first week, he earns $20. In the following weeks, his earnings increase by $2 per week (i.e., he earns $22 in the second week, $24 in the third week, and so on). Additionally, Lewis has to pay $3 in expenses f...
Question: Randy uses 36 small blocks and 14 large blocks to build a tower. His friend Cindy also contributes 9 small blocks. If Randy initially had 59 small blocks and 18 large blocks, how many blocks of each size are left after the tower is built? Answer: Randy initially had 59 small blocks. He used 36 of them to bui...
Question: There are 527 bananas, 386 oranges, and 319 apples in Philip's collection. If the bananas are organized into 11 groups, oranges are organized into 103 groups, and apples are organized into 17 groups. What is the size of each group for bananas, oranges, and apples? Answer: To find the size of each group, we n...
Question: Bobby ate 28 pieces of candy. Then he ate 42 more, but only ate 3/4 of these. He also ate 63 pieces of chocolate, and decided to consume half of those as well. Considering his total consumption, how many pieces of candy and chocolate did Bobby eat? Answer: First, let's calculate how many of the 42 pieces of ...
Question: A store sells packs of DVDs at a regular price of 107 dollars each. During a sale, the store offers a discount of 106 dollars on each pack for the first 10 packs only. After that, every additional pack costs the regular price. If you have 93 dollars, how many packs of DVDs can you buy considering the limited ...
Question: Adam has 25 apples, 34 oranges, and 18.5 bananas. Jackie has 43 apples, 29 oranges, and 16.5 bananas. How many more apples and oranges does Jackie have than Adam in total? Answer: To find out how many more apples Jackie has than Adam, we subtract the number of apples Adam has from the number of apples Jackie...
Question: The Razorback shop sells jerseys, t-shirts, hats, and hoodies. They make a profit of $5 for each jersey, $15 for each t-shirt, $8 for each hat, and $25 for each hoodie. During the Arkansas and Texas Tech game, they offered a 10% discount on the total sales and were charged a $50 vendor fee. They sold 20 t-shi...
Question: Josh started with 20 marbles in his collection. He lost 16 marbles and found 8 new ones. Later, he traded 5 marbles with his friend Tom for 9 different marbles. He then gave away 3 marbles to his sister and received 4 marbles from his cousin. How many net marbles did Josh lose or gain from all these transacti...
Question: Kelly has 80 Nintendo games. She participates in a gaming event, where she earns 50% more games, adding to her initial collection. After that, her friend gave her another 31 Nintendo games. She now decides to give away 90% of her total collection to a charity event. How many games would she give away to be le...
Question: Helen the hippo and her friends are preparing for thanksgiving at Helen's house. Helen baked 519 chocolate chip cookies, 300 raisin cookies, and 375 oatmeal cookies yesterday. The day before yesterday, she baked 280 raisin cookies, 359 chocolate chip cookies, and 425 oatmeal cookies. How many more raisin cook...
Question: They decided to hold the party in their backyard. They have some sets of tables, with most having 3 chairs and a few having 4 chairs. If there are a total of 9 chairs in the backyard and there are at least 2 tables with 4 chairs, how many sets of tables with 3 chairs and sets of tables with 4 chairs do they h...
Question: For Gwen's birthday, she received $8.25 from her mom and her dad gave her $6.50. Her grandparents sent her $12.35 in a birthday card, and her aunt gave her $5.10. She spent $4.45 on a toy, $6.25 on snacks, and saved the remaining money. If she spent an additional 25% of her remaining money on books, how much ...
Question: Nell collects baseball cards. Initially, she traded 45 cards with her friend Sam but received 30 new cards in return. Then, she bought 60 new cards from a card shop. Nell gave 301 of her cards to Jeff and now has 154 cards left. How many baseball cards did Nell have initially, before trading and buying any ne...
Question: Let x be the number of baskets, r be the number of red peaches in each basket, and g be the number of green peaches in each basket. If there are a total of 10x peaches distributed equally among the baskets, and the proportion of red and green peaches varies for each basket, solve the following system of equat...
Question: In Haley's class, 27 boys love to play marbles, and 75 boys love to play cards. If Haley has 142 marbles, how many will each of the boys who play marbles receive? Answer: To find out how many marbles each boy who plays marbles will receive, we need to divide the total number of marbles by the number of boys ...
Question: Baker made 62.5 cakes. Then he made 149.25 more cakes. He sold 144.75 of them. How many cakes would baker still have? Answer: Baker initially made 62.5 cakes and then made an additional 149.25 cakes. To find out the total number of cakes he made, we add these two amounts together: 62.5 cakes + 149.25 cakes ...
Question: There are 25 different movies and 36 different books in the "crazy silly school" series. If you read 17 of the books and watched 13 of the movies. How many more books than movies are there in the "crazy silly school" series? Answer: To find out how many more books than movies there are in the "crazy silly sc...
Question: Ryan has the following learning schedule: Day 1: 7 hours on learning English, 2 hours on learning Chinese, and 4 hours on learning Spanish Day 2: 6 hours on learning English, 3 hours on learning Chinese, and 5 hours on learning Spanish Day 3: 8 hours on learning English, 1 hour on learning Chinese, and 3 hou...
Question: Being his favorite, he saved checking on the fruit orchard for his last stop. He was told by the workers that they fill 100 drums of raspberries per day, 221 drums of grapes per day, 150 drums of apples per day, and 75 drums of oranges per day. How many drums of raspberries, grapes, apples, and oranges would ...
Question: Baker made 121 cakes. He sold 75% of them and bought 150% more cakes than he originally made. How many cakes does baker still have? Answer: First, let's find out how many cakes the baker sold. He sold 75% of the 121 cakes he made. 75% of 121 = 0.75 * 121 = 90.75 cakes Since he can't sell a fraction of a c...
Question: Paco initially had 100 cookies. He gave 15 cookies to his first friend, 25 cookies to his second friend, and ate 40 cookies. How many more cookies did he eat than those he gave to his friends combined? Answer: Paco gave away a total of 15 cookies to his first friend and 25 cookies to his second friend. So, t...
Question: Adam has 10 apples. Jackie has 2 apples. Michael has 5 apples. How many more apples does Adam have than the combined total of Jackie's and Michael's apples? Answer: Jackie and Michael have a combined total of 2 + 5 = 7 apples. Adam has 10 apples. So, Adam has 10 - 7 = 3 more apples than the combined total ...
Question: Rachel picked 7.5 apples from her tree. Thereafter 2.3 new apples grew on the tree. Now the tree has 6.2 apples still on it. How many apples did the tree have to begin with? Answer: To find out how many apples the tree had to begin with, we need to add the apples Rachel picked and the apples that are still o...
Question: The grasshopper, the frog, the mouse, the squirrel, and the rabbit had a jumping contest. The grasshopper jumped 19 inches. The frog jumped 39 inches farther than the grasshopper. The mouse jumped 94 inches lesser than the frog. The squirrel jumped the average of the grasshopper's and the frog's jumping dista...
Question: A farmer had 160 tomatoes in his garden. He picked 56 of them on the first day, and 41 on the second day. However, the tomato plants produce new tomatoes every day. On the first day, 20 new tomatoes grew, and on the second day, 30 new tomatoes grew. If the farmer picked an unknown number of tomatoes on the th...
Question: In a fruit shop, there are 15 baskets of peaches. In each basket, there are 19 red peaches, 4 green peaches, and 6 moldy peaches. The shopkeeper decides to remove 3 red peaches and 1 green peach from each basket due to a few blemishes. After that, they add 5 freshly harvested peaches to each basket. Calculate...
Question: John is building a rectangular house with 4 walls of varying lengths. He needs to use 6 nails to secure each large plank of wood to a wall. The first wall requires 96 nails, the second wall requires 120 nails, the third wall needs 84 nails, and the fourth wall needs 102 nails. How many planks does John need f...
Question: An industrial machine made 50 shirts and 35 pants yesterday and 40 shirts and 50 pants today. It can produce shirts at a rate of 5 shirts per minute and pants at a rate of 3 pants per minute. How many minutes did the machine work today to produce both shirts and pants? Answer: To calculate the total time the...
Question: Baker made 105 cakes and 275 pastries. If he sold 214 pastries and 163 cakes. How many more pastries than cakes did baker sell? Answer: Baker sold 214 pastries and 163 cakes. To find out how many more pastries than cakes he sold, we subtract the number of cakes sold from the number of pastries sold: 214 pa...
Question: Rachel had to complete 6 pages of reading homework, 10 pages of math homework, 3 pages of science homework, and 5 pages of history homework. How many more pages of math homework than reading, science, and history homework combined did she have? Answer: To find out how many more pages of math homework Rachel ...
Question: Jerry had 7 action figures, 2 books, and 5 stuffed animals on a shelf in his room. He added 4 more books, and 3 more stuffed animals to the shelf, and also gave away 1 action figure and 2 stuffed animals. How many more action figures than books were on his shelf after these changes? Answer: Jerry originally ...
Question: Marco, his dad, his mom, and his sister all went strawberry picking. Marco's strawberries weighed 8 pounds, his dad's weighed 32 pounds, his mom's weighed 22 pounds, and his sister's weighed 14 pounds. How much did their strawberries weigh altogether? Answer: To find the total weight of the strawberries they...
Question: Paul got a box of 253 crayons for his birthday. By the end of the school year, he had either lost or given away 35.5% of them. How many crayons did he have left by the end of the school year? Answer: To find out how many crayons Paul had left, we first need to calculate how many crayons he lost or gave away....
Question: A mailman has to distribute 128 pieces of junk mail to each of the 85 blocks, and gives 16 mails to each house in a block while skipping every third house; how many houses are there in a block? Answer: Let's denote the number of houses in a block as H. The mailman gives out 16 pieces of mail to each house b...
Question: Matthew initially had 24 crackers. He decided to give away 20% of his crackers to a friend and then equally distribute the remaining crackers among his 3 other friends. How many crackers did each of the 3 friends receive? Answer: First, we need to calculate how many crackers Matthew gave away to the first fr...
Question: A book has 3 chapters, and each chapter has multiple sections. The first chapter has 3 sections with page lengths of 20, 10, and 30. The second chapter has 4 sections with page lengths of 5, 12, 8, and 22. The third chapter has 2 sections with page lengths of 7 and 11. How many more pages does the third secti...
Question: There are 25 different books and 45 different movies in the 'Crazy Silly School' series. A bookstore has a special offer in which you can buy a bundle consisting of 3 books and 7 movies. If you want to buy all the books and movies in the series using the special bundles, how many more complete bundles do yo...
Question: Carol was sending out birthday invitations to 20 friends. She decided to send some invitations online and others by mail. She bought 4 packs of mailed invitations, each with the same number of invitations, for a total of 2/5 of her friends. How many invitations are in each pack of mailed invitations? Answer:...
Question: Jack received 3 emails in the afternoon, 6 emails in the morning, and some more in the evening. In the evening, he received x emails from person A and y emails from person B. If he received a total of 10 emails in the day, how many emails did Jack receive in the evening, expressed in the form x + y? Answer: ...
Question: In a school, there are 732 girls and 761 boys. Additionally, there are 54 teachers. 682 more girls and 8 more boys joined the school, and 3 extra teachers were also hired. How many students and teachers are there in the school now? Answer: Let's calculate the new total number of girls, boys, and teachers aft...
Question: Mary is baking a cake and wants to scale the recipe up by a factor of 1.5. The original recipe calls for 11 cups of sugar, 9 cups of flour, and 4 cups of milk. She has already added 14 cups of flour, 13 cups of sugar, and 5 cups of milk. How many more cups of each ingredient does she need to add to maintain t...
Question: Robin has 28 packages of gum and 14 packages of candy. There are 3 types of gum packages: Type A has 4 pieces, Type B has 8 pieces, and Type C has 12 pieces. There are 2 types of candy packages: Type X has 6 pieces and Type Y has 10 pieces. Robin has 10 packages of Type A gum, 5 packages of Type B gum, and ...
Question: Every day, Ryan spends 6 hours learning English, 3 hours learning Chinese, 5 hours practicing French, and 2 hours studying computer programming. During his weekends, he spends an additional 2 hours learning English and 1 hour learning Chinese. Over the course of a week, how many more hours does he spend on le...
Question: Paul had 284.5 books. After giving 63.7 books to his friend, he decided to sell some more of his books. He then sold 16.25 books per day for 8 days during a garage sale. After all these transactions, he had 112.3 books left. How many books did he sell during the garage sale? Answer: First, let's calculate ho...
Question: After eating a hearty meal, they went to see Buckingham Palace. On their visit, Rachel learned that 3,500 visitors came to the palace on the previous day. If there were 8,333 visitors on the day of their visit, and they also learned that 2,500 visitors visited the palace two days prior, how many more visitors...
Question: Emily is making bead necklaces for her 75 friends. She already made 35 necklaces and each necklace takes 4 beads. She also gave away 12 completed necklaces. How many beads has Emily used so far? Answer: Emily made 35 necklaces and each necklace takes 4 beads. So, the total number of beads used for the 35 nec...
Question: There are 6 baskets of peaches. Each basket has 16 red peaches and 18 green peaches. Among all the peaches, 20% of red peaches and 15% of green peaches are rotten and must be discarded. How many good red peaches are left in the baskets in total? Answer: First, let's calculate the total number of red peaches ...
Question: There were 12 roses, 2 orchids, and 5 lilies in the vase. Jessica cut some more roses, orchids, and lilies from her flower garden. There are now 10 roses, 21 orchids, and 15 lilies in the vase. How many roses, orchids, and lilies did she cut from her garden? Answer: To find out how many of each type of flowe...
Question: Haley grew 167 trees in her expansive orchard. After a severe tropical storm, 84 of them died. How many more trees survived the storm than those that died? Answer: Haley had 167 trees originally. After the storm, 84 trees died. To find out how many trees survived, we subtract the number of trees that died fr...
Question: Melissa scored 152 points in each game. She also got 95 bonus points in each game. How many points did she score in 93 games? Answer: To find the total points Melissa scored in 93 games, we need to calculate the points she scored in each game and then multiply that by the number of games. Points scored in e...
Question: The Razorback shop offers three different types of jerseys (type A, type B, and type C) and two types of t-shirts (type X and type Y). The shop makes $180 off each type A jersey, $210 off each type B jersey, $220 off each type C jersey, $240 off each type X t-shirt, and $270 off each type Y t-shirt. During th...
Question: The Ferris wheel in paradise park has 3 small seats and 7 large seats. Each small seat can hold 16 people and large seat can hold 12 people. Large seats have a weight limit of 1500 lbs each and the average weight of each person riding the Ferris wheel, regardless of their age group or size, is 180 lbs. Assumi...
Question: Ryan spends 5 hours every day learning Chinese. He spends 2 hours more on English than he does on Chinese, but he also spends half the time he does on English learning Spanish. Additionally, he spends a third of the time he does on Spanish learning French. How many hours does he spend on learning English, Spa...
Question: Paige was helping her mom plant flowers in 9 flowerbeds. They planted different amounts of seeds in each flowerbed: the first one received 18 seeds, the second one got 22 seeds, the third got 30 seeds, the fourth got double the amount of seeds than the first one, the fifth got the same number of seeds as the ...
Question: Frank was reading through his favorite book. The book had 935 pages distributed unevenly over 35 chapters. Over the course of 9 days, Frank read the book in varying speeds, spending twice as much time reading on the first day as he did on the ninth day. If he read the same number of pages each day, how many p...
Question: Frank was reading through his favorite book. He read 5.7 pages per day on weekdays and 9.5 pages per day on weekends. If the book had 576 pages and he started reading on a Monday, how many days did he take to finish the book? Answer: To calculate the number of days Frank took to finish the book, we need to c...
Question: Jake has 18 fewer peaches than Steven, who has 13 more peaches than Jill. Steven has 19 peaches. Sam has twice as many peaches as Jill. How many peaches does Jill have? Answer: Steven has 19 peaches. Since Steven has 13 more peaches than Jill, we can find out how many peaches Jill has by subtracting 13 from ...
Question: Brenda's mother is baking cookies for a party. For the party, she expects 10 guests, but 9 guests inform her that they won't make it. She had planned on baking 4 types of cookies - chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, sugar, and peanut butter cookies. The total amount of cookies she planned to prepare was 180. S...
Question: Kelly gives away 250 nintendo games. How many did she have initially if she still has 300 games left? Answer: If Kelly still has 300 games left after giving away 250 games, then the total number of games she had initially can be calculated by adding the number of games she gave away to the number of games sh...
Question: At the beginning, there were 2 sparrows, 1 crow, and 3 storks sitting on the fence. Then, 4 more egrets, 3 more crows, 6 more storks, and 1 more sparrow arrived. After 15 more minutes, 2 sparrows and 1 egret left the fence, and 30 minutes later, 3 additional storks and 4 additional crows arrived. How many mor...
Question: Carol needs to send out birthday invitations to 25 friends and family members. If each package of invitations she buys contains 3 invitations, how many packages does she need to buy to ensure that no one is left out? Answer: To find out how many packages Carol needs to buy, we divide the total number of invi...