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<human>: There are three machines in a factory. Machine A can put caps on 12 bottles in 1 minute. Machine B can put caps to 2 fewer bottles than Machine A. Machine C can put caps to 5 more bottles than Machine B. How many bottles can those three machines put caps on in 10 minutes? <bot>: Machine A can put caps on 12 * ...
<human>: John has a sneezing fit for 2 minutes. He sneezes once every 3 seconds. How many times does he sneeze? <bot>: He was sneezing for 2 * 60 = 120 seconds So he sneezed 120/3 = 40 times. #### 40 The answer is: 40
<human>: Janet is considering two options to retile her bathroom. The turquoise tiles cost $13/tile and the purple tiles cost $11/tile. If Janet needs to tile two walls that measure 5 feet by 8 feet and 7 feet by 8 feet, and each square foot of wall takes 4 tiles, how much will Janet save by buying the purple tiles ins...
<human>: Jason is planning a parking garage that will have 12 floors. Every 3rd floor has a gate where drivers have to show ID, which takes two minutes. To get from one floor to the next, drivers have to drive 800 feet at 10 feet/second. How long, in seconds, does it take to get to the bottom of the garage from the top...
<human>: 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? <bot>: The electronics store ...
<human>: One of the activities in Grade 6 PE class is to get the average weight of the students from each group. In one of the groups, the average weight of five girls is 45 kg while the average weight of five boys is 55 kg. What is the average weight of the ten students from that group? <bot>: The sum of the weights o...
<human>: Bobby received his weekly paycheck today. Although his salary is $450 per week, his actual paycheck is reduced in size because there are some taxes, insurance payments, and fees removed from his pay before his employer writes the check. If the government removes 1/3 in federal taxes and 8% in state taxes, th...
<human>: Colleen is making a batch of 48 cookies. She's going to add 108 chocolate chips and one-third as many M&Ms to the whole batch. What are the average number of chocolate pieces in each cookie? <bot>: First find the total number of M&Ms: 108 chocolate chips / 3 chocolate chips / 1 M&M = 36 M&Ms Then add that numb...
<human>: Rudy runs 5 miles at a rate of 10 minutes per mile. Later he runs 4 miles at a rate of 9.5 minutes per mile. What is the total length of time that Rudy runs? <bot>: Rudy first runs for 5 * 10 = 50 minutes. Then Rudy runs for 4 * 9.5 = 38 minutes. Rudy runs for a total length of 50 + 38 = 88 minutes. #### 88 Th...
<human>: June liked to collect cat stickers. She had a total of 76 in her collection. Her twin sister Bonnie also collected cat stickers and had 63 in her collection. For their birthday, their grandparents gave them 25 cat stickers each. How many combined stickers did they have? <bot>: June had 76 stickers and was ...
<human>: 4 students participated in a 200m race. If the average completion time of the last three students was 35 seconds, and the average completion time of all four runners was 30 seconds, how long (in seconds) did it take the student who came first to finish the race? <bot>: The last 3 students had an average comple...
<human>: If Katherine has 4 apples and 3 times as many pears in her fridge, how many bananas does she have if she has a total of 21 pieces of fruit? <bot>: Katherine has a total of 3 * 4 apples = 12 pears She therefore had 4 apples + 12 pears = 16 apples and pears We know she has 21 total pieces of fruit, so this means...
<human>: Peter is raking leaves. It takes him 15 minutes to rake 3 bags of leaves. If he keeps raking at the same rate, how long will it take him to rake 8 bags? <bot>: We are trying to figure out how long it will take Peter to rake 8 bags of leaves, so we'll call that Y. And we know Peter can rake 3 bags of leaves / 1...
<human>: Lovely cuts her birthday cake into 12 equal pieces. Only one-fourth of the cake was eaten by her visitors and the rest were kept. How many slices of cake were kept? <bot>: 12/4 = 3 slices of cake were eaten by Lovely's visitors. So, 12 - 3 = 9 slices of cake were kept. #### 9 The answer is: 9
<human>: Jacoby wants to save money for a trip to Brickville. He needs to have $5000 total to go on his trip. He works a job earning $20 per hour and works 10 hours. He then finds he can sell cookies for $4 each, and he sells 24 pieces of cookies. With the money he has so far, he buys a lottery ticket for $10 and wins ...
<human>: Sam bought a dozen boxes, each with 30 highlighter pens inside, for $10 each box. He rearranged five of these boxes into packages of six highlighters each and sold them for $3 per package. He sold the rest of the highlighters separately at the rate of three pens for $2. How much profit did he make in total, in...
<human>: John starts at an elevation of 400 feet. He travels downward at a rate of 10 feet down per minute for 5 minutes. What is his elevation now? <bot>: He traveled down 10 * 5 = 50 feet. So he is at an elevation of 400 - 50 = 350 feet. #### 350 The answer is: 350
<human>: Mark plants some strawberries in his backyard. Every month, the number of strawberry plants doubles. After 3 months, Mark digs up 4 strawberry plants and gives them to his friend. If he still has 20 strawberry plants, how many did he initially plant? <bot>: First, add the 4 plants Mark gave away to the 20 he ...
<human>: Tom opens an amusement park. It cost $100,000 to open initially. It also cost 1% of that to run per day. He sells 150 tickets a day for $10 each. How long will it take to make back his money? <bot>: It cost 100,000 * 0.01 = $1,000 a day to keep the place open He makes 150 * 10 = $1500 a day from the park ...
<human>: Georgia is working on a math test with 75 problems on it. After 20 minutes she has completed 10 problems. After another 20 minutes, she has completed twice as many problems. She has 40 minutes to complete the rest of the test. How many problems does she have left to solve? <bot>: Georgia's test started with 75...
<human>: A baker sells pastries for $5 and works 7 days a week. On Monday he sold 2. Every day the number of sales increases by 1 compared to the previous day. On average, how many pastries does he sell on each day of the week? <bot>: You know from the statement that on Monday he sells 2 pastries, so on Tuesday he sell...
<human>: Jessica is having a sweet tooth and bought 10 chocolate bars, 10 packs of gummy bears, and 20 bags of chocolate chips. Her total rang up to $150. If the cost of a pack of gummy bears is $2 and a bag of chocolate chips costs $5, how much does 1 chocolate bar cost? <bot>: The gummy bears cost 10 * 2 = $20. The c...
<human>: Jorge is 24 years younger than Simon. In 2005, Jorge is 16 years old. In 2010, how old would Simon be? <bot>: In 2005, Simon was 16 + 24 = 40 years old. There are 2010 - 2005 = 5 years between 2005 and 2010. In 2010 Simon would be 40 + 5 = 45 years old. #### 45 The answer is: 45
<human>: Cameron drives at twice the speed of his brother, Chase. But Danielle drives at three times the speed of Cameron. If it takes Danielle 30 minutes to travel from Granville to Salisbury, how long, in minutes, will it take Chase to travel from Granville to Salisbury? <bot>: If Danielle drives at three times the...
<human>: Bruce recently had a birthday. His aunt sent him a card with $75 and his grandfather sent him a card that had $150 in it. He wants to go on a trip to Europe soon, so he decides to put one-fifth of the money he got for his birthday in the bank. How much money did he put in the bank? <bot>: Bruce got 75 + 150 = ...
<human>: At Peanut Emporium, peanuts cost $3 per pound with a 15-pound minimum. If Baxter spent $105 on peanuts, how many pounds over the minimum did he purchase? <bot>: Start by figuring the number of pounds Baxter bought. $105 / $3 per pound = 35 pounds of peanuts 35 pounds bought - 15 pounds minimum = 20 pounds over...
<human>: Chad bought 6 packages of cat food and 2 packages of dog food. Each package of cat food contained 9 cans, and each package of dog food contained 3 cans. How many more cans of cat food than dog food did Chad buy? <bot>: Chad's cat food total was 6 packages * 9 cans = 54 cans of cat food. Chad's dog food total w...
<human>: Steph needs to cook fried chicken for the kid's party. She bought 24 pieces of drumstick and 4 fewer breast parts. How many fried chickens can Steph make? <bot>: Steph bought 24 - 4 = 20 breast parts. Thus, she can make 24 + 20 = 44 fried chickens. #### 44 The answer is: 44
<human>: Marcus is making calzones. It takes him 20 minutes to saute the onions and a quarter of that time to saute the garlic and peppers. It takes him 30 minutes to knead the dough, twice as long to let it rest, and 1/10th the combined kneading and resting time to assemble the calzones. How many minutes does Marcus s...
<human>: Stan makes a playlist for the next time he goes running. He has 10 3-minute songs and 15 2-minute songs on his playlist. His entire run takes 100 minutes. If Stan wants a playlist to cover his entire run, how many more minutes of songs will he need in his playlist? <bot>: His playlist currently has a playtime ...
<human>: Peter and Kristin are to read 20 fantasy novels each in a week. Peter can read three times as fast as Kristin. If Peter reads one book in 18 hours, how long will Kristin read half of her books? <bot>: Since Peter reads three times as fast as Kristin, Kristin will take 18 * 3 = 54 hours to read one book. Kristi...
<human>: There are 6 times as many lab coats as uniforms in the lab. The number of lab techs is half of the number of uniforms. If there are 12 uniforms in the lab, and the lab techs share the coats and uniforms equally among them, how many coats and uniforms in total does each lab tech get? <bot>: If there are 12 unif...
<human>: David finished his homework in 60 minutes. He spent 15 minutes on his math homework and 18 minutes on his spelling homework. He spent the rest of the time reading for his daily reading log. How many minutes did he spend reading? <bot>: He spent 15 + 18 = 33 minutes doing homework. David spent 60 - 33 = 27 minu...
<human>: Last year, Jorge planted corn on all of his 60 acres of property. Typically, corn grown on good soil yields 400 bushels per acre, but in clay-rich soil, the yield is only half as much per acre as in good soil. One-third of Jorge's 60 acres of land is clay-rich soil and the rest is good soil. How many bushel...
<human>: Jerry is making cherry syrup. He needs 500 cherries per quart of syrup. It takes him 2 hours to pick 300 cherries and 3 hours to make the syrup. How long will it take him to make 9 quarts of syrup? <bot>: First find how many cherries Jerry can pick in one hour: 300 cherries / 2 hours = 150 cherries/hour Then m...
<human>: Camille saw 3 cardinals and four times as many robins as cardinals while bird watching. She also saw twice as many blue jays as cardinals and 1 more than three times as many sparrows as cardinals. How many birds did Camille see? <bot>: Camille saw 3 * 4 = 12 robins. She also saw 3 * 2 = 6 blue jays. Triple the...
<human>: Jackson is making dinner. He makes a salad out of lettuce (50 calories), carrots (twice the calories of the lettuce) and dressing (210 calories). He also makes a pizza with 600 calories for the crust, 1/3 the crust's calories for the pepperoni, and 400 calories for the cheese. If Jackson eats 1/4 of the salad ...
<human>: Patricia has 4 barrels of 7 gallons each. All of them are empty, and there's only one faucet with a flow rate of 3.5 gallons per minute. How many minutes will it take to fill all 4 barrels? <bot>: If Patricia has 4 barrels and each barrel has 7 gallons, then in total she needs 4 * 7 = 28 gallons If the faucet ...
<human>: Julieta went to the store to buy a backpack and three ring-binders for her school supplies. She knew the backpack was $50, and each ring-binder cost was $20. However, at the store, she found out that the price of a back had increased by $5, and the price of a ring-binder had reduced by $2. Calculate the total ...
<human>: Haley, Michael and Brandon were trying a marshmallow challenge to see who could hold more marshmallows in their mouths. Haley could hold 8 marshmallows in her mouth. Michael could hold 3 times as many marshmallows as Haley. Brandon could hold half as many as Michael. How many total marshmallows did all three k...
<human>: Grace's age is 3/8th the age of her grandmother. Her grandmother is twice the age of Grace's mother. If Grace's mother is 80 years old, how old is Grace? <bot>: Grace's grandmother is 2 * 80 years = 160 years old. Grace's age is 3/8 * 160 years = 60 years old. #### 60 The answer is: 60
<human>: Roger uses his lunch break to walk the stairs in his office building. He can walk 2,000 steps in 30 minutes. If his daily goal is 10,000 steps, how many minutes will it take him to reach his goal? <bot>: Each step Roger walks for 30/2000 = 0.015 minutes To walk 10000 steps he'll take 0.015 * 10000 = 150. ###...
<human>: A retailer sells any shirt for the same price and any pair of pants for the same price, but the price of shirts and pants are not the same. Say you bought 2 shirts and 3 pairs of pants for $120 in total, then you realized you didn't need the extra pants. What's the price of 1 shirt at this place if when you re...
<human>: Calum runs a nightclub and decides to run a disco night to attract different customers. He is planning the event and is calculating how much he can spend on each item without spending more than he has budgeted. He only needs to buy 4 disco balls and 10 boxes of food. Each box of food costs $25. Calum’s budget ...
<human>: Sally Draper gave her dad Don Draper 10oz of rum on his pancakes. Don can consume a maximum of 3 times that amount of rum for a healthy diet. If he already had 12oz of rum earlier that day, how many oz of rum can Don have after eating all of the rum and pancakes? <bot>: 3 times the initial amount of 10 oz is 3...
<human>: Jenny wants to heat a dish for dinner. It needs to be at 100 degrees before it is ready to eat. It is 20 degrees when she places it in the oven, and it heats up 5 degrees every minute. How many minutes will it take to be ready? <bot>: To determine this, we must first figure out the required change in temper...
<human>: A pen and pencil have a total cost of $6. If the pen costs twice as much as the pencil, what is the cost of the pen? <bot>: Let x be the cost of the pencil. If the pen costs 2 times the cost of the pencil, then it costs 2x. Adding the cost of the pen and pencil we get 2x + x = 3x Since the total cost is $6 the...
<human>: A math teacher had $100 to buy three different types of calculators. A basic calculator costs $8. A scientific calculator costs twice the price as the basic while a graphing calculator costs thrice the price as the scientific. How much change did she receive after buying those three different types of calculat...
<human>: Lucy works in a pet shop. She can clean 2 aquariums in 3 hours. If Lucy is working 24 hours this week, how many aquariums could she clean? <bot>: We know how many aquariums Lucy can clean in a 3 - hour increment. This week, Lucy will work for 24 / 3 = 8 increments. Lucy can clean 2 aquariums per increment, so ...
<human>: Tricia buys large bottles of iced coffee that have 6 servings per container. She drinks half a container a day. The coffee is currently on sale for $3.00 a bottle. How much will it cost her to buy enough bottles to last for 2 weeks? <bot>: She drinks half a container of a 6 serving bottle of iced coffee a d...
<human>: Last month, a factory made 12000 dolls and their associated accessories. The accessories for each doll included 2 shoes, 3 bags, 1 set of cosmetics, and 5 hats. If each doll took 45 seconds to make and each accessory took 10 seconds to make, what was the total combined machine operation time, in seconds, req...
<human>: A monkey swings from branch to branch at an average distance of 1.2 meters per second. How far will a monkey swing in meters if it consistently swings from branches for 30 minutes? <bot>: If a monkey swings 1.2 meters a second then a monkey can swing 1.2 meters/second * 60 seconds/minute = 72 meters in a minut...
<human>: Lucca has 100 balls and 10 percent of his balls are basketballs. Lucien has 200 balls and 20 percent of them are basketballs. In total how many basketballs do Lucca and Lucien have? <bot>: Lucca has 100 basketballs * (10 / 100) = 10 basketballs. Lucien has 200 basketballs * (20 / 100) = 40 basketballs Together...
<human>: Out of 804 senior high school students, 75% passed their exams and so got their degree. The rest failed. How many didn't pass their exams? <bot>: Find the number of students who got their degree by multiplying: 804 students * 75% = 603 students. Then find the number of students who didn't pass their exams by s...
<human>: A tiger shark has 180 teeth. A hammerhead shark has 1/6 the number of teeth that a tiger shark has. A great white shark has double the sum of teeth of a tiger shark and a hammerhead shark. How many teeth does a great white shark have? <bot>: Hammerhead shark:180/6 = 30 Great White:2(180 + 30) = 420 teeth. ##...
<human>: A group of researchers are studying a colony of penguins. Their results show that the size doubled in the first year they watched the colony, then tripled in the next year. This year, however, harsh conditions meant the colony only gained 129 penguins. The colony has 1077 penguins in it now. Each penguin eats ...
<human>: Five less than three times the number of Doberman puppies plus the difference between the number of Doberman puppies and the number of Schnauzers is equal to 90. If the number of Doberman puppies is 20, how many Schnauzers are there? <bot>: Three times the number of Doberman puppies is 3 * 20 = 60 Five less th...
<human>: In 5 years, Heath will be 3 times as old as Jude. If Heath is 16 years old today, how old is Jude today? <bot>: In 5 years, Heath will be 16 + 5 = 21 years old. In 5 years, Jude will be 21 / 3 = 7 years old. The difference in their ages is 21 - 7 = 14 years. Today, Jude will be 16 - 14 = 2 years old. #### 2 T...
<human>: A store is comparing their profits throughout the year. They had profits of $1,500 in the first quarter of the year, $3,000 in the third quarter, and $2,000 in the fourth quarter. If their annual profits are $8,000, how much profit, in dollars, did they make in the second quarter? <bot>: In the three quarters ...
<human>: A van is delivering 180 bottles of drinks to a neighborhood, and each bottle contains either cider or beer or a mixture of two. Out of the 180 bottles, 40 contain only cider, 80 contain only beer, and the rest are a mixture of the two drinks. If the delivery man gives half the number of each bottle of drink ...
<human>: Clementine, Jake, and Tory make cookies for the school bake sale. Clementine baked 72 cookies. Jake baked twice as many cookies as Clementine. Tory baked half as many cookies as Jake and Clementine combined. They sell their cookies for $2 each. If they sell all their cookies, how much money do they make? <bot>...
<human>: A dog is being treated for fleas. One flea treatment gets rid of half the fleas. After four treatments, the dog has 14 fleas left. How many more fleas did the dog have before the flea treatments than after? <bot>: After three treatments, the dog had 14 * 2 = 28 fleas. After two treatments, the dog had 28 * 2 =...
<human>: Between them, Mark and Sarah have 24 traffic tickets. Mark has twice as many parking tickets as Sarah, and they each have an equal number of speeding tickets. If Sarah has 6 speeding tickets, how many parking tickets does Mark have? <bot>: First figure out how many total speeding tickets the two people got by ...
<human>: Cooper makes 7 apple pies a day. He does this for 12 days. Ashley then eats 50 of his pies. How many apple pies remain with Cooper? <bot>: The number of pies Cooper makes in 12 days is 7 pies/day * 12 days = 84 apple pies. After Ashley eats 50 of them, there are 84 pies – 50 pies = 34 apple pies. #### 34 The a...
<human>: Lindsey bought 2 exercise bands to intensify her workout. Each band adds an extra 5 pounds of resistance to her workout. If she doubles up both sets of bands and places them around her legs and picks up a 10-pound dumbbell, how much weight will she squat? <bot>: She has 2 exercise bands that are both 5 pound...
<human>: Wendy just started working at an Italian restaurant. She polished 50 small glasses and 10 more large glasses than small glasses. How many glasses did she polish? <bot>: She polished 50 + 10 = 60 large glasses. Therefore, Wendy polished 50 + 60 = 110 glasses. #### 110 The answer is: 110
<human>: Miss Darlington has a basket of 20 blueberries. She picked 9 more baskets with the same amount of berries. How many blueberries did Miss Darlington have in all? <bot>: Miss Darlington picked 9 * 20 = 180 blueberries more. So she had a total of 180 + 20 = 200 blueberries. #### 200 The answer is: 200
<human>: In a basketball game, Jon scored 3 points. Jack scored 5 points more than Jon, and Tom scored 4 less than the points of Jon and Jack together. How many points did they score altogether? <bot>: Jack scored 3 + 5 = 8 points. Together, Jon and Jack scored 8 + 3 = 11 points. So, Tom scored 11 - 4 = 7 points. Thus,...
<human>: In a shipping container, there are 10 crates. Each crate is filled with 6 boxes and each box is filled with 4 washing machines. A worker removes 1 washing machine from each box. There are no other changes. How many washing machines were removed from the shipping container? <bot>: Initially, there were 6 boxes ...
<human>: Darnell has 1000 square feet of fabric that he's using to make mini flags. He makes square flags that are 4 feet by 4 feet, wide rectangular flags that are 5 feet by 3 feet, and tall rectangular flags that are 3 feet by 5 feet. He has already made 16 square flags, 20 wide flags, and 10 tall flags. How many squ...
<human>: Matthias has 40 soccer balls and 15 basketballs. 30 soccer balls and 7 basketballs have a hole in them. How many balls in total does Matthias have without holes in them? <bot>: Matthias has 40 - 30 = 10 soccer balls without holes. Matthias has 15 - 7 = 8 basketballs without holes. A total of 10 + 8 = 18 balls ...
<human>: Jenny is scraping gum off the bottom of the seats in a stadium with two sections. Section A has 1 subsection with 60 seats and 3 subsections with 80 seats each. Section B has 20 more seats than 3 times as many seats as Section A has total. How many seats does Section B have? <bot>: First find how many total se...
<human>: The running time of Beast of War: Armoured Command is 10 minutes longer than that of Alpha Epsilon, which is 30 minutes shorter than that of Millennium. If Millennium runs for 2 hours, what is the running time of Beast of War: Armoured Command in minutes? <bot>: One hour contains 60 minutes so 2 hours contain ...
<human>: A packet of candy sweets has 30 cherry-flavored sweets, 40 strawberry-flavored sweets, and 50 pineapple-flavored sweets. Aaron eats half of each of the flavored sweets and gives 5 cherry-flavored sweets to his friend. How many sweets are still in the packet of candy? <bot>: Aaron eats 1/2 * 30 sweets + 1/2 * 4...
<human>: Oliver has two bags of vegetables. Each bag weighs 1/6 as much as James’s bag, which weighs 18kg. What is the combined weight of both Oliver’s bags? <bot>: Each of Oliver’s bags weighs 18 kg * 1/6 = 3 kg. Combined, both his bags weigh 3 kg * 2 = 6 kg. #### 6 The answer is: 6
<human>: Greg's PPO algorithm obtained 90% of the possible reward on the CoinRun environment. CoinRun's maximum reward is half as much as the maximum ProcGen reward of 240. How much reward did Greg's PPO algorithm get? <bot>: Half of much as ProcGen's maximum reward is 240/2 = 120 reward 90% of CoinRun's maximum reward...
<human>: Julia has a parrot and a rabbit. She buys food for both of the animals for $30 in total a week. Julia has the rabbit for 5 weeks, and the parrot for 3 weeks. How much money did Julia already spend on food for her animals, if the weekly cost of the rabbit food is $12? <bot>: If the rabbit food costs $12 a week,...
<human>: Janet has 60 less than four times as many siblings as Masud. Carlos has 3/4 times as many siblings as Masud. If Masud has 60 siblings, how many more siblings does Janet have more than Carlos? <bot>: If Masud has 60 siblings, and Carlos has 3/4 times as many siblings as Masud, Carlos has 3/4 * 60 = 45 siblings....
<human>: A highway is being extended from its current length of 200 miles up to 650 miles. 50 miles are built on the first day, and three times this amount are built on the second day. How many miles still need to be added to the highway to finish extending it? <bot>: The length of the highway that needs to be constru...
<human>: Susan is making jewelry with a repeating pattern that has 3 green beads, 5 purple beads, and twice as many red beads as green beads. If the pattern repeats three times per bracelet and 5 times per necklace, how many beads does she need to make 1 bracelets and 10 necklaces? <bot>: First find the number of red b...
<human>: Janet counts 30 crows on the powerlines and 60% more hawks than crows. How many birds does she count total? <bot>: First find how many more hawks than crows there are: 60% * 30 crows = 18 crows Then add that number to the number of crows to find the total number of hawks: 18 crows + 30 crows = 48 crows Then ad...
<human>: Joan has 180 socks. Two thirds of the socks are white, and the rest of the socks are blue. How many blue socks does Joan have? <bot>: Joan has (180/3) * 2 = 120 white socks. The number of blue socks Joan has is 180 - 120 = 60. #### 60 The answer is: 60
<human>: Simon collected treasures on the beach during his summer vacation. He collected a bucket of pearly seashells, a jar full of smooth sea glass, and a bag of ten sand dollars. If the jar holds three times as many pieces of glass as the bag does sand dollars, and the bucket holds five times as many seashells as th...
<human>: Bryce is bringing in doughnuts for his class. There are 25 students in his class, 10 kids want chocolate doughnuts and 15 want glazed doughnuts. The chocolate doughnuts cost $2 each and the glazed doughnuts cost $1 each. How much is the total cost for doughnuts? <bot>: The chocolate doughnuts cost 10 * $2 = $2...
<human>: Sally needs to make a tablecloth that measures 102 inches by 54 inches. She also needs to make 8 napkins that are 6 by 7 inches. How many square inches of material will Sally need to make the tablecloth and the 8 napkins? <bot>: Tablecloth = 102 * 54 = 5508 square inches Napkins = 8 * (6 * 7) = 336 square inch...
<human>: Kat gets a 95% on her first math test and an 80% on her second math test. If she wants an average grade of at least 90% in her math class, what does she need to get on her third final math test? <bot>: Let x = the percent needed on her third math test (95 + 80 + x)/3 = 90 (95 + 80 + x) = 270 x = 270 - 95 - 80 ...
<human>: Patricia is growing her long very long to donate it to a charity that makes wigs for cancer survivors. Her hair is 14 inches long. She needs to donate 23 inches to make a wig. She wants her hair to be 12 inches long after the donation. How much longer does she have to grow her hair? <bot>: Her hair needs to be...
<human>: Jason joined the military when he turned 18. It took him 8 years to raise to the rank of chief. Then 25% longer than that to go from chief to master chief. He then spent 10 years more in the military before retiring. How old was he when he retired? <bot>: It took 8 * 0.25 = 2 years longer to go from chief ...
<human>: Mabel is counting sharks in the ocean. She knows that of the fish that she sees, 25% will be sharks and 75% will be another type of fish. On day one she counts 15 fish. On day 2 she counts three times as many. How many sharks did she count over those two days? <bot>: She counts 45 fish on day 2 because 3 * 15 ...
<human>: Doris works at the Widget Factory in the packing department. She puts 3 widgets in each carton, which are 4 inches wide, 4 inches long, and 5 inches tall. She then packs those cartons into a shipping box before sending it to the loading bay. The shipping boxes are 20 inches wide, 20 inches long, and 20 inches ...
<human>: James buys jars for his honey. He has 5 hives that each produce 20 liters of honey. Each jar can hold .5 liters. How many jars will he need to buy if his friend is bringing his own jars for half the honey? <bot>: He produces 5 * 20 = 100 liters of honey That means he keeps 100/2 = 50 liters of honey So he n...
<human>: Susan earned $600 from babysitting over the summer. She went shopping and spent half of it on clothes. Then she spent half of what was left on books. How much money did she have left? <bot>: Susan spent 600/2 = 300 on clothes After buying clothes she had 600 - 300 = 300 dollars left She spent 300/2 = 150 dolla...
<human>: A choir splits into 3 groups for their performances. The first group has 25 members, and the second group has 30 members. The third group has the remaining members of the choir. If the choir overall has 70 members, how many members are in the third group? <bot>: There are 25 + 30 members = 55 members in the fi...
<human>: Max is planning a vacation for 8 people. The Airbnb rental costs $3200. They also plan on renting a car that will cost $800. If they plan on splitting the costs equally, how much will each person’s share be? <bot>: The total cost for the vacation rentals will be $3200 + $800 = $4000. The cost per person will b...
<human>: Kendra made 4 more than five times as many decorated buttons as Mari. Sue made half as many as Kendra. Mari made 8 buttons. How many did Sue make? <bot>: Kendra made 4 + 5 * 8 = 44. Sue made 44/2 = 22. #### 22 The answer is: 22
<human>: If Natasha was going 10 mph over the speed limit and it took her an hour to arrive at her destination that was 60 miles away, what was the speed limit? <bot>: Natasha was driving at 60 miles / 1hr = 60 mph The speed limit was 60mph - 10 mph = 50 mph. #### 50 The answer is: 50
<human>: Donny has $78 in his piggy bank. If Donny buys a kite for $8 and a frisbee for $9. How much money does Donny have left? <bot>: Donny has 78 - 8 = 70 after paying for the kite. He has 70 - 9 = $61 left after buying the frisbee as well as the kite. #### 61 The answer is: 61
<human>: Ivan had $10 and spent 1/5 of it on cupcakes. He then spent some money on a milkshake and had only $3 left. How much is the milkshake? <bot>: Ivan spent a total of $10 - $3 = $7 on cupcakes and a milkshake. The cost of the cupcake is $10 * 1/5 = $2. So, $7 - $2 = $5 was spent on the milkshake. #### 5 The answe...
<human>: John joins a country club with 3 other members of his family. The fee to join is $4000 per person. There is also a monthly cost of $1000 per person. John pays half the cost. How much does John pay for the first year? <bot>: There are 3 + 1 = 4 members joining So the cost is 4 * 4000 = $16,000 to join The m...
<human>: In four years, Suzy will be twice Mary's age then. If Suzy is 20 now, how old is Mary? <bot>: In four years, Suzy will be 20 + 4 = 24. Then Mary will be 24/2 = 12. Then Mary is now 12 - 4 = 8. #### 8 The answer is: 8