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Jackie makes $25/hour as a receptionist at a law firm. Jackie works full-time 40 hours a week. Two weeks a month, she works four hours of overtime. Her overtime rate is 1.5x her hourly rate. Assuming that the month has four weeks, how much does Jackie make in a month?
4300
Ten more than 3 times the amount of baseball cards being sold at auction is 37. How many cards are for sale?
9
Sarah works every day to earn $500 and spends 3 hours at a spin class that costs $12 per hour. How much money does she have after 4 days?
1856
If today's temperature is 20 degrees and tomorrow's is 36 degrees, what would be the average temperature?
28
A bus driver has 30 seats available on his bus at the beginning of his day. At his first stop of the day he picks up 6 passengers. When he gets to his next stop, half of the passengers get off and 6 new ones come on the bus. His next two stops nobody gets off at either, but twice the amount got on from his first stop. How many open seats are on the bus at the end of this stop?
9
Ruby is starting 1st grade this year and has a classroom supplies list. She needs 50 sheets of paper and a dozen pencils. Paper costs $0.02 for a sheet, but pencils cost $0.25 a piece. What is the price of Ruby's school supplies?
4
A gas station started the day with 240 gallons of gas. By noon, only 75% of the gas was left. The cars that filled up after noon all filled up with the same amount of gas, and by the end of the day, the gas station had fully run out. There were 20 cars in the afternoon. If gas costs $3 a gallon, how much did each car pay?
27
Julian has a budget of $6,000 for the renovation of his kitchen. He is going to spend 1/3 of that budget on countertops and 1/2 of the budget on a contractor. How much will be left over for him to use for appliances?
1000
Ray works in a chicken stall. On a Saturday, he sells a total of 43 kg of chicken, and on Sunday, he sells a total of 50 kg of chicken. If the rate of chicken on Saturday was $3/kg and the chicken on Sunday was $5/kg, how much money did he make for these two days in total?
379
A group of students are collecting cans for a recycling drive. If they collect 3 times as many cans on the second day as they did on the first day, and on the third day, they collect 20 more cans than on the second day, how many cans did they collect in total over the three days if they collected 30 cans on the first day?
230
Blue feathers are worth 3 points, black feathers are worth 1 point, and red feathers are worth 2 points. If Sam has 3 of each feather, how many points does he have?
18
Bill makes $40,000 a year. He has to pay 20% in taxes. He puts away 10% into his savings after taxes. Of what is left, he spends 30% on his rent. How much will he have left?
20160
Jane has a "low fuel warning" light show up in her car; she has a range of 50 miles left before it's empty. If she's traveling at 60 mph, how much time in minutes does she have until she runs out of gas?
50
Emily buys 2 red apples and 3 green apples. Each red apple is sold at 3 USD and each green apple is sold at 4 USD. It is known that 1 USD is equivalent to 7 RMB. How much in RMB does Emily spend buying all of these apples?
126
Aiden is buying groceries and has a budget of $20. He decides he wants to buy a loaf of bread for $1 and 1 steak for $8. How much will Aiden have left after buying groceries?
11
Andre spends 1.5 hours on homework each night from Monday through Thursday. On Sundays, he spends twice as much time on homework than he does on a weekday. He spends one-third as much as much time on homework on Saturdays as he does on Sundays. He works on Fridays after school for 4.5 hours. He works 2 hours longer on Saturday and two-thirds as long on Sunday as he does on Friday. How many more hours does he spend working each week than he spends on homework?
4
Veronica can crochet 1 whale plushie with 5 hours of work. To make the whale plushie, she must spend $7 on supplies for each plushie. Veronica is preparing to sell her whale plushies at a market, which requires a $50 fee to attend as a vendor. If Veronica spends 75 hours making whale plushies, and she sells the whale plushies for $22 each, how much money will Veronica earn if she sells all of her whale plushies at the market?
175
Bradley and his friends like to play marbles. They have a box of marbles that contain 12 red balls, 15 yellow balls, and 18 green balls. What is the probability of picking a red ball? Round up to a whole number.
27
It takes Jack 5 minutes to brush her teeth, 15 minutes to take a shower, 20 minutes to cook breakfast, and 10 minutes to make coffee. Assume Sarah takes twice the time as Jack at each task, how much time does Sarah have to cut off to be 10 percent faster than Jack?
55
Marry is 26 years old and her mom is 2 times older than her, her dad is 25 percent older than her mom, her brother is one year younger than her. What is the average age of the family.
42
Shaun has 56 quarters and 60 nickels in his backpack. How much money in dollars does he have?
17
Bethany is ordering pizza for a gathering of friends. There are 10 people there, and each person will eat 4 slices over the course of the day. Each pizza has 8 slices. If Bethany wants to buy exactly enough so that no slices are left over, how many should she order?
5
A restaurant is rearranging tables. There are currently 8 tables with 6 chairs and twice as many tables with 4 chairs. The restaurant wants 1/4 of the chairs to be in groups of 4. How many chairs will be put into groups of 4?
28
Charles is playing a card game using a regular deck of 52 playing cards. In the game he is playing, the individual cards are assigned point values. The players pick 7 cards from the 9 in their hand, and compare point totals to determine a winner. Each number card is worth the number on the card, plus the number of other cards that have the same suit. For example, the 4 of hearts in a hand with 2 other hearts is worth 4+2 or 6 points. Each face card is worth 11 times the number of other cards in the hand of the same suit. For example, a King of Clubs in a hand with 4 other clubs is worth 11*4 or 44 points. Finally, an ace is worth points equal to the product of all the number cards in a hand, regardless of suit. For example, in a hand containing an ace, 3, 6, 2, and 5, the ace is worth 3*6*2*5 or 180 points. Charles assembles a hand containing a 2 of diamonds, a 4 of clubs, a 7 of diamonds, a Jack of diamonds, an ace of spades, a 6 of clubs, and a Queen of clubs. What is the total point value of his hand?
407
Quinn wants to know how many marshmallows he gets in a bowl of cereal. On the 1st day, he counted 6 marshmallows. On the 2nd day, he had 2 times as many marshmallows as he did the day before. The 3rd day, he found half as many marshmallows as he had yesterday. On the 4th day, he counted 2/3 more marshmallows than the day before. How many marshmallows did Quinn have on average?
7
Mr. Bradley needs to order new gym equipment. Each rack costs $45, and he needs 8 of them. He needs to order 5 weight sets that each cost $150, and 6 benches each cost $100. Shipping cost is based on the weight of the package. For every 5 lbs, it costs $3 to ship. The racks weigh a total of 75 lbs, the weights weigh a total of 50 lbs, and the benches weigh a total weight of 50 lbs. What's his total?
1815
Malik is organizing the chocolate bar fundraiser for the cheerleading team. Every participant will get a shipment of 500 bars. The unsold portion will return to inventory. Jada sold 267 bars, Jennifer sold 199, Theresa sold 419, Anne-Elizabeth sold 369, Alisha sold 265, Stephanie sold 187, and Tamika sold 150. How many bars will be returned to inventory?
1644
Mario leaves his house and drives 20 minutes to hike at a nearby park. He spends 1.5 hours at the park and then heads to a nearby store to buy a few groceries. It normally takes 15 minutes to drive from the park to the store, but the drive took twice as long due to traffic. He spends one-third as much time in the store as he spent driving to the store from the park. The drive from the store back to his home took half as long as it took to drive from his house to the park. How many minutes passed between leaving his house and returning home?
160
Mary and Jane were running for school president position. 40% of students supported Mary and 30% supported Jane. And, the rest were not sure. If the school had 1400 students, how many students were unsure?
420
Louise went to visit the Philippines. She tried going to her destination using the public transportation. From her hotel, she rode a modern jeepney going to her destination. The first four kilometers cost 14 pesos and an additional 4 pesos for every succeeding kilometer. Returning to her hotel, she rode a traditional jeepney which cost 12 pesos for the first four kilometers, and the additional fare for the succeeding kilometers was half the modern jeepney's succeeding rate. If she paid 26 pesos for the modern jeepney, what was her total fare expense for both jeepney rides?
44
Dr. Disco charged $15 per person to attend a Valentine's Day dance and 50 people attended. He hoped to improve attendance (and income) so at his St. Patrick's Day dance he only charged $10. The attendance doubled compared to his Valentine's dance. How much did the total ticket sales increase (in dollars) from the Valentine's dance to the St. Patrick's Day dance?
250
Clifford needs 2.5 teaspoon of coffee in per cup of coffee he makes. He drinks 2 cups of coffee every day. Each jar of coffee contains about 240 teaspoons of coffee. How long a jar of coffee will last him?
48
Hyde makes $500 a week working at the mall. On top of that, she earns both a 10% bonus and $100 in commissions every week. She pays $75 a week for health benefits before putting 18% of her weekly earning into a savings account. How much would Hyde have left from two weeks of earnings (excluding the amount in her savings account)?
943
Theo works for $20 an hour. Each week, he works for 40 hours. He receives biweekly paychecks, so he gets one every other week or typically 2 monthly. Each paycheck, $25 is taken out for health insurance, $78 is taken out for his retirement plan, and $2 is taken out for dental insurance before taxes are deducted. After these amounts are taken out of the paycheck, Theo pays 20% of this amount in taxes, and the rest of the paycheck is his take-home pay. In a typical month, where Theo receives 2 paychecks, how much money will he take home from his work?
2392
Ben has a rock collection. Pearl gives him 10 rocks, and Peggy gives him 5 rocks, his rock collection doubles. How many rocks does he start out with?
15
Phil is an astronomer on the local news. He wants to do a story on the changes in the weather over the past few years. To begin, he needs to determine the difference between the sum of the highest and lowest temperatures. The highest temperatures he recorded were 3, 16, 57, 64, and 81 degrees Fahrenheit, while the lowest temperatures he recorded were 7, 8, 34, 51, and 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Then he needed to double the difference and divide it by the number of years encompassed in his study to determine the year-over-year temperature change. If his study was done over six years, what was the year-over-year change in temperature?
17
Jan usually pays $20 for her sandwich but today it's half off. If sales tax is usually 10% how much will she pay for her sandwich?
11
Bear Lake Chocolate Factory had its grand opening. The candy store sold the following on its first day: 135 pounds of truffles for $3/pound, 132 fudge squares for $2 each, 120 chocolate covered gummy bear bags at $5 each bag, 569 white chocolate pretzels for $3 each, and 68 candy apples for $8 each. How much money did the candy store make on opening day?
3520
David had two pet bunnies, then they started to multiply rapidly. In the first week, he had four times as many bunnies than he originally had. By the end of the next week, he had 25% more than the first week. The third week saw a rapid increase in the number of bunnies by a factor of 4. Then 4 ran away, which prompted him to give half of the remaining bunnies to an animal shelter. How many did he give to the shelter?
18
A farmer plants 1,200 wheat seeds. He expects that 7% of the seeds he planted will never grow. Assuming that he doesn't have to replant the seeds and one seed yields one unit of wheat, how much wheat should he expect to have harvested after 3 harvests?
3348
There are 3 boxes of crayons in the art room. Each box has 12 crayons. Ms. Smith takes out 5 crayons from each box to use in class. How many crayons are left altogether?
21
Charles needs to fill up his tank since he only has 1 gallon left. If a full tank is 13 gallons and gas is priced at $3.50 a gallon, how much would Charles need to pay to fill up?
42
Julius is wanting to start up an Orange Julius business. He needs a total of $50,000 for the start-up. Of the $50,000, 30% comes from investors he found, 6% from his parents and 4% from his aunt accounted for family contributions, and 5% from an individual contributor. Julius will apply for a loan for the remaining amount. How much would Julius need to receive in loans to start his business?
27500
Bailey goes to the ice shop with $20. She buys ice cream 1 scoop for $3.50 and a double scoop for $5.50. Natasha was short $3, and asked Bailey to borrow the money. How much money does Bailey have left?
8
Gabby has a 224-page book that she needs to finish reading in the next 20 days. She won't be able to read at all during her 6-day road trip during this time. How many pages does Gabby need to read per day, on average?
16
Jill is 5 years old and Jack is 11 years old. At what age would Jack have to turn to be twice as old as Jill?
12
Andy's mom is paying for 4 children and 2 adults to see a movie on Saturday. Children's tickets cost $5.50 each and adult tickets cost $7.00 each. What is the total amount Andy's mom spends on movie tickets?
36
Tyrone owns a laptop repair shop. This upcoming week he has a lot of laptops to fix. 10 customers dropped off Chromebooks, 17 dropped off Macbooks, and 8 dropped off Lenovos for repair. Tyrone wants to repair an equal amount of laptops each day of the week so they can all be done on time. How many laptops does he need to repair a day?
5
Sean has a vendor stand at a local soccer tournament. He wants to make sales totaling $1,050. He sells the following products: Lemonade for $5, Soft Pretzels for $3, Chips for $2 and Bottled Water for $1.50. During the tournament, he sells 123 cups of lemonade, 78 soft pretzels, and 81 bags of chips. How many bottled waters does he need to sell to reach his goal of $1,050?
26
Sebastian is planning a road trip. He knows that his car's fuel efficiency is 25 miles per gallon. The trip is 500 miles one way, and he plans to return by the same route. Gas costs $3.50 per gallon. He also plans to stay in a hotel for 2 nights, which costs $120 per night. The hotel parking fee is $15 a night. He also needs to budget $30 per day for food at his destination. How much will the entire trip cost?
470
Walter has a medical bill of $2000. Each month he pays a higher percentage of money for his bill. During the four months of his payments, he pays 20%, 25%, 30%, and then 50% of his money for his bill in each individual month, respectively. After 4 months, what is his balance?
420
Emily makes some deposits into her bank account every month. She deposits $100 in January. She then deposits $50 more than the previous month. In June, the amount she deposits is the average of the amounts in the previous two months. In July she deposits $50 less than the previous month. How much in total does Emily deposit from January to July?
1500
Howard bought 9 pizzas for a party. Each pizza has 8 slices. His guests ate 6 pizzas. How many slices of pizza are left?
24
Shania is at the deli, and she wants to buy a sandwich. The turkey club sandwich costs twice as much as the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The grilled cheese sandwich costs two-thirds the price of the turkey club sandwich. The peanut butter and jelly sandwich costs $6. Shania does not like peanut butter and jelly and only has $10 with her, so she buys the grilled cheese sandwich. How much money does she receive in change?
2
Maddie is taking a walk. She walks 2 miles in an hour. If Connor is 2 times faster than her, what is the distance Connor can walk in three hours.
12
A Pomodoro cycle is a sequence of work-break periods where a person works for 15 minutes then rests for 5 minutes. If Billy must work for 4 hours for the day, how many of these cycles must he complete in order to finish his day?
12
Company A currently has 60 employees. Due to the economic slowdown in the fourth quarter of the year, the company needs to reduce its workforce by 1/3. However, the following spring, the hiring manager anticipates an economic recovery and plans to increase the staff by 10 percent from the current number. At the end of the year, Company B, which has 3 times as many employees as Company A's employee after the economic recovery, decides to merge with Company A, combining their work forces. How many total employees will there be after the merger?
176
Frank is a stockbroker tracking some stocks for a customer. He increased their initial investment of $18 by a factor of 14. They then gave him another $38 to further increase his investment balance. He then doubled the balance and added a $25 strong investor bonus he received from his employer. After the investment period ended and Frank returned the total balance to his customers, they split it among 11 different bank accounts. How much money was in each bank account?
55
If Joshua ate 7 apples and gave 2 to each of his 5 friends, how many apples did he have in total?
17
Laz and Cody are DJs. Laz listened to 5 hours of music a day to prepare for their set. Cody listened to 3 hours of music a day for a week to prepare for their set. How much music in total did they listen to after 7 weeks?
392
A baker made a batch of cookies and sold them in packs. He sold five packs of chocolate chip cookies, each each pack containing four cookies. He also sold twice as many oatmeal cookie packs as chocolate chip cookie packs, each containing three cookies. If he had 8 chocolate chip cookies and 9 oatmeal cookies left over after selling the packs, how many cookies did he make in total?
67
Kenishi, a thirteen-year-old boy looking to join the local dojo, decides to sign up for lessons. As he approaches the entrance gate, he sees that they have posted the physical requirements for new inductees at the entrance. Each person wishing to join the dojo must be able to perform at least three times as many pushups as their age, their age minus ten pullups, and five times as many situps as their age. Seeing this, what is the total number of repetitions that Kenishi must perform to induct himself into the dojo?
107
Mary sells 4 bags of pears where each bag contains 3 giant pears and 4 small pears. Each giant pear is sold at $5 and each small pear is sold at $2. Mary also sells 2 bags of cherries where each bag contains 5 pounds of cherries. The cherries are sold at $8 per pound. How much in total does Mary earn from selling all these fruits?
172
Emily is organizing her bookshelf with books of 3 different genres: mystery, science fiction, and fantasy. If she has 12 mystery books and wants to have twice as many science fiction books as mystery books and three times as many fantasy books as science fiction books, how many books will she have in total?
108
Bella is selling fruit juice. The 8oz is sold for 10 cents while the 16oz is sold for 15 cents. If a customer who bought 2 of each gave 1 dollar, how much change does Bella need to give?
50
A student needs to complete a science project that involves planting seeds. The student decides to plant 3 seeds in each pot. Pots cost $5 each. If the student wants to use exactly 27 seeds, how much will they spend on pots?
45
Marina bought 3 hot dogs a total of $15. Jose bought twice as many hot dogs as Ben. Jose's total was $30. How much did Ben spend on hot dogs?
15
Angela has two brothers and a sister. She is five years older than her youngest brother. Her older brother is twice as old as her younger brother and three years younger than her oldest sister. If the oldest sister is 15, how many years old is Angela?
11
You are saving for your next vacation. You are adamant that you will pay for your trip in cash and therefore you will need to save up the full price of all aspects of the trip before traveling. You are headed to the Florida Keys! Your round trip flight and rental car will cost $374. Your hotel accommodations cost $234 a night and you will be there for 5 nights. You have a $300 budget for food and $400 for excursions. You have budgeted $30 per day to leave for tips for travel guides. You make $42 an hour. How many hours must you work to save up for your trip?
57
George is eating at a restaurant with his family. The restaurant offers soda for $5 for the first glass, then $2 for refills. George orders a Coke and then 4 refills over the course of his meal. How much did George spend on his drinks?
13
Alex plans to adopt a new cat and needs help planning a budget for this event. The adoption fee is $200, and it includes all the essential veterinary care needed for a kitten, but she also needs to buy other supplies for the cat when she brings it home. The litter boxes cost $30, one package of litter costs $17, a bag of dry food costs $55, and the wet food costs $1.50 per can. Alex will buy 2 litter boxes, 3 packages of litter, one bag of dry food, and 12 cans of wet food. How much money should Alex make sure she has before beginning the process of adopting her new cat?
384
A baker made 150 cupcakes for a bake sale. If 2/5 of them are chocolate and the rest are vanilla, how many more vanilla cupcakes are there than chocolate cupcakes?
30
Jimmy and Roger are going to take a road trip to tour a college. The drive is 1800 miles. They have three days and three nights to drive there, and they only want to have to stop to sleep once a night for 4 hours. If all of their other stops over the three days only take 5 hours a day, how fast (in miles per hour) will they have to drive to make it to the tour in time?
40
Emily is a cashier. A customer arrives and gives her a $20 bill for items that cost a total of $18.75. She gives the change entirely in quarters. If she accidentally gives the customer one extra, how many quarters did she return as change?
6
Colin is playing dice with his friend Eoin and needs some help keeping track of his score. He begins with 5 points and wins 6 points in the first round. In the second round, he won twice as many points as he won in the first round. In the third round, he had a fantastic roll and was able to triple his total point count! How many points did Colin end the game with?
69
Katie and her friends are going on a 10-mile hike. They hike at a pace of 3 miles per hour for the first 6 miles. Then they take a 1-hour lunch break before hiking the last 4 miles at a pace of 2 miles per hour. How long does it take them, in hours, to finish the hike?
5
The middle school wrestling time is checking their weights. Chad weights three times as much as Luke. Luke weights half the amount of Jermaine. Jermaine weights 76 pounds more than Trevor. Trevor weights 2 pounds less than Trent who weights 5 pounds more than Brock. Brock weights the least at 75 pounds. What is the average weight of the wrestling team?
116
Joann's dog gives birth to 12 puppies. 1/4 of them have white fur, 1/2 of them have black fur, and the rest have both black and white fur. How many puppies have both black and white fur?
3
Louis, Steve, and John compete to see how far they can run. Louis beats Steve by 20 meters, and John runs twice as far as Louis. If Steve ran 15 meters, how many meters did John run?
70
Taylor lives in a six-bedroom, four-bathroom house. She is looking to paint the inside of her home and wants to figure out how much money she needs to set aside for paint. She estimates she will need two buckets of paint for each bedroom, and she will need twice as many buckets of paint for all the hallways as the total number of buckets used for the bedrooms. The kitchen will need twice as many buckets of paint as the number of buckets for all the bathrooms, and she estimates she will need half a bucket of paint for each bathroom. If a bucket of paint costs $12, how much will it cost Taylor to repaint the inside of her house?
504
Barry has four dollar bills and twice as many $5 bills. He gives 1/4 of the money away to his friend. Then his mom gives him $2. How much money does Barry have now?
35
A group of students went on an expedition. They found four turtles each of which was 2 pounds. They also saw two rabbits with their combined weight equaling half that of one turtle. Find the weight of all the animals that they discovered.
9
Sally went to the mall to buy clothes for the summer. She went to Forever 21 and bought 4 tops, each had different prices, $12.99, $6.99, $17.99, $21.99, and 3 pants each priced at $15.99. If her subtotal is over $75, she gets a discount of 15% on her purchase at that store. Then she goes to Shoe Palace and buys 2 shoes for a total of $123.26. How much money did Sally spend at the mall?
215
Milly is eating a pie. She eats 4 slices and eats 2 times as much the next day. How many total slices of pie did Milly eat?
12
Janet wants to listen to 20 music albums by the end of the week. If she just finished her twelfth album and today is Thursday, how many albums per day would she have to listen to by Saturday?
4
There is four students in the class room waiting for the class to start. In the next couple minutes three more students enter the class room, but one student leaves from the four that were already there. Soon after 3 times the amount of the initial students in the class enter and the bell rings to start class. How many students are in the classroom.?
18
Anna, Bob, and Cathy have some candies. Anna has 8 candies, Bob has 12 candies, and the number of candies that Cathy has is the average number of candies that Anna and Bob have. First, Anna gives half of her candies to Cathy. Then, Cathy gives half of her candies to Bob. How many candies will Bob receive from Cathy?
7
Lily is planning a trip to Japan with their boyfriend. They plan to spend $2400 on airfare, $800 on lodging, and $1,000 on food and excursions. They also plan to purchase travel insurance for 10% of the total trip cost. Their partner offers to pay ¾ of the costs, so they are only responsible for the remainder, which they aim to pay in 5 monthly installments. Their weekly expenses are $100. They earn on average $750 a month. How much money, in dollars, will they have left over after paying their bills and trip expenses for the month?
119
Ali had a collection of seashells. He started with 180 seashells. He then gave away 40 seashells to his friends. He also gave 30 seashells to his brothers. If he sold half of the remaining seashells, how many seashells did he have left?
55
Bob has 20 apples. He eats 40% of them and then sells the remaining apples at $4 each. John has 18 apples. He sells half of them at $6 each. What is the difference between Bob's and John's earnings?
6
A company bought 200 units of product A at $50 each. The company bought 150 units of product B at $30 each. The company had to pay a fixed operation fee of $2,000. How much did the company pay altogether?
16500
Morgan bought 6 pots of flowers. Each pot yields 2 seeds. If Morgan continues to water the plants, every plant will yield 2 more seeds than the day before. How many seeds in total will Morgan get at the end of two days?
36
Jason is applying for his first credit card. He is approved with a starting credit line of $2500, at a 32% monthly interest rate. If Jason carries a balance of $650 after his first month, how much would he have to pay off his balance plus interest for that month?
858
Shaggy is buying ingredients so he can prepare a particularly large sandwich. The sandwich has 6 identical layers. Each layer has 2 slices of tomato, 4 leaves of lettuce, 2 slices of cheese, and 6 slices of roast beef. Each slice of tomato and leaf of lettuce costs 25 cents, each slice of cheese costs 75 cents, and each slice of roast beef costs 50 cents. He also needs 2 slices of bread for the sandwich, which, in total, will cost 20 cents. How much (in cents) will Shaggy need to spend on ingredients to create the sandwich?
3620
Bob has $20 and Mary has $60 more than Bob. Now Bob and Mary put all their money together and split the entire fund evenly. Then Bob gives 20% of his share to Mary. How much does Mary have in the end?
60
Gino bought 8 shirts for $100, he got a 25% discount. How much in dollars did he spend?
75
At an elementary school, each class of students is challenged to read twice as many books as the year before. For example, in kindergarten, students are encouraged to read 20 books either independently or with an adult. In first grade, students are encouraged to read 40 books during the academic year. If this amount doubles each school year, and the students adhere to the guidelines, how many books will each student have read by the end of elementary school (elementary school concludes after fifth grade)?
1260
Julian is going on a trip. His flight is $350. He is spending twice that on his hotel. He is going to spend half the amount of his flight on food. He will spend 1/4 of the amount on his flight and food combined on transportation while he is there. The cost of visiting museums and shows while he is on vacation is twice the amount he will spend on transportation. He is going to spend $100.25 on souvenirs. He had budgeted $2000 for his trip. How much will he have left?
281
Sandra opened her piggy bank. She was able to save 100 quarters and 10 half dollars. However, this was not enough to buy her favorite toy so her mother gave her $10. How much does the toy cost?
40
Jose is completing a science project using ants, crickets, and pill bugs. Jose has 4 times the number of ants as pill bugs, and he has 2 times the number of crickets as pill bugs. If Jose has 20 ants, how many bugs does Jose have in total?
35