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<human>: Wanda has 62 crayons. Dina has 28 and Jacob has two fewer crayons than Dina. How many crayons do they have in total? <bot>: Jacob has 28 - 2 = 26 crayons. You can find the total number of crayons by adding the number of crayons each person has: 26 crayons + 62 crayons + 28 crayons = 116 crayons. #### 116 The a...
<human>: Safari National park has 100 lions, half as many snakes, and 10 fewer giraffes than snakes. On the other hand, Savanna National park has double as many lions as Safari National park, triple as many snakes as Safari National park, and 20 more giraffes than Safari National park. How many animals in total does Sa...
<human>: Claire won a $100 gift card to her favorite coffee shop. She wants to treat herself to a latte that cost $3.75 and a croissant for $3.50 every morning for a week. She also plans to buy 5 cookies that cost $1.25 each. How much money will be left on her card after a week of coffee and pastry? <bot>: Every day s...
<human>: Tom decides to buy some shirts from his favorite fandoms because there is a sale on his favorite website. He buys 5 t-shirts from each of his 4 favorite fandoms. The shirts normally cost $15 each but there is a 20% off sale. The order qualified for free shipping but he still needed to pay 10% tax. How muc...
<human>: Corveus sleeps 4 hours a day and his doctor recommended for him to sleep 6 hours a day. How many hours of sleep does Corveus lack in a week? <bot>: Corveus lacks 6 - 4 = 2 hours of sleep every day. Therefore, Corveus' total hours of lack of sleep every week is 2 * 7 = 14. #### 14 The answer is: 14
<human>: Janet works as an exterminator and she also sells molten metal casts of fire ant nests on the Internet. Janet gets paid $70 an hour for exterminator work and makes $20/pound on her ant nest sculptures. If she does 20 hours of exterminator work and sells a 5-pound sculpture and a 7-pound sculpture, how much mon...
<human>: An avant-garde sushi house sells jellyfish for a certain amount and eel for nine times that amount. If the combined cost of one order each kind of sushi is $200, how much does the eel cost? <bot>: Let j be the cost of the jellyfish and e be the cost of the eel. We know that j + e = $200 and e = 9j. Substitutin...
<human>: As a special treat, Georgia makes muffins and brings them to her students on the first day of every month. Her muffin recipe only makes 6 muffins and she has 24 students. How many batches of muffins does Georgia make in 9 months? <bot>: She has 24 students and her muffin recipe only makes 6 muffins so she ne...
<human>: Mary just held tryouts for the high school band. 80% of the 20 flutes got in, half the 30 clarinets got in, 1/3 of the 60 trumpets got in, and 1/10th of the 20 pianists got in. How many people are in the band total? <bot>: First find the total number of flutes who were accepted: 20 flutes * 0.8 = 16 flutes The...
<human>: Norma takes her clothes to the laundry. She leaves 9 T-shirts and twice as many sweaters as T-shirts in the washer. When she returns she finds 3 sweaters and triple the number of T-shirts. How many items are missing? <bot>: Norma left 9 T - shirts And twice as many sweaters, she took 9 * 2 = 18 sweaters Adding...
<human>: Danielle's apartment has 6 rooms. Heidi's apartment has 3 times as many rooms as Danielle's apartment. Grant's apartment has 1/9 as many rooms as Heidi's apartment. How many rooms does Grant's apartment have? <bot>: Heidi's apartment has 6 * 3 = 18 rooms. Grant's apartment has 18/9 = 2 rooms. #### 2 The answer...
<human>: Carmen is selling girl scout cookies. She sells three boxes of samoas to the green house for $4 each; two boxes of thin mints for $3.50 each and one box of fudge delights for $5 to the yellow house; and nine boxes of sugar cookies for $2 each to the brown house. How much money did Carmen make? <bot>: Carmen ea...
<human>: Don throws 3 darts. One is a bullseye worth 50 points. One completely missed the target, so received no points. The third was worth half the points of the bullseye. What is the final score from these 3 throws? <bot>: The third dart earned Don 50 / 2 = 25 points. Thus, his total score is 50 + 0 + 25 = 75 poi...
<human>: Carmen burns a candle for 1 hour every night. A candle will last her 8 nights. If she burns the candle for 2 hours a night, how many candles will she use over 24 nights? <bot>: Burning a candle for 1 hour lasts her 8 nights so if she burns for 2 hours it will last her 8/2 = 4 nights 1 candle now lasts 4 nigh...
<human>: Andre catches 8 ladybugs on Monday and 5 ladybugs on Tuesday. If each ladybug has 6 dots, how many dots are there in total for all the ladybugs? <bot>: The total number of ladybugs is 8 + 5 = 13 The total number of dots is 13 * 6 = 78. #### 78 The answer is: 78
<human>: Richard starts walking from Cincinnati to New York City, which is 70 miles. Richards walks 20 miles the first day. The next day he walks 6 miles less than half as much as he walked the first day. He walks 10 miles the third day. How many miles further does Richard have to walk to be in New York City? <bot>: Th...
<human>: Goldie makes $5 an hour for pet-sitting. Last week, she worked for 20 hours while this week, she worked for 30 hours. How much did Goldie earn in two weeks for pet-sitting? <bot>: Goldie did pet - sitting for a total of 20 + 30 = 50 hours. So, she earned a total of $5 * 50 = $250. #### 250 The answer is: 250
<human>: Every year, Mabel gets as many quarters as she is years old. She always puts these and nothing else in a piggy bank. When she turns 7, how much money is in the bank? <bot>: On her second birthday she adds $.5 because 2 * 0.25 = 0.5 On her third birthday she adds $.35 because 3 * 0.25 = 0.75 On her fourth birth...
<human>: There were 672 balloons that were either green, blue, yellow, or red. They were divided into equal groups and then Anya took half of the yellow ones home. How many balloons did Anya take home? <bot>: 672/4 = 168 balloons 168 * (1/2) = 84 balloons Anya took 84 balloons home. #### 84 The answer is: 84
<human>: Becky has 50 necklaces in her jewelry collection. 3 of the necklaces have broken beads so she collects the unbroken beads for crafting and throws the other parts of the 3 the necklaces out. Becky buys 5 new necklaces that week. She decides to give 15 of her old necklaces to her friends as gifts. How many neckl...
<human>: Jack needs to put his shoes on, then help both his toddlers tie their shoes. If it takes Jack 4 minutes to put his shoes on, and three minutes longer to help each toddler with their shoes, how long does it take them to get ready? <bot>: First figure out how long it takes to help one toddler: 4 minutes + 3 minu...
<human>: Anna spent 1/4 of her money, and now she has $24 left. How much did she have originally? <bot>: Let X be the amount Anna had originally. She spent X * 1/4 and has X - X * 1/4 = $24 left. Combining like terms, we get X * 3/4 = $24. Dividing both sides by 3/4, we get X = $32. #### 32 The answer is: 32
<human>: Alec is running for Class President. He thinks that if he can get three-quarters of the class to vote for him then there is no chance anyone else can beat him. Half of the class have already said they will vote for him but out of the remaining students, only 5 have said they are thinking about voting for him. ...
<human>: The garbage truck passes through Daniel's neighborhood on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. In each garbage collection, an average of 200 kg is taken. Due to obstruction in the roads leading to Daniel's neighborhood, the garbage truck stops passing through for two weeks. During the first week, people in Dani...
<human>: Maria gave a third of her money to her friend Isha, half of what she gave to Florence. If Florence received three times as much money as Maria's cousin Rene, and Rene received $300, how much money did Maria give her three friends? <bot>: The total amount of money that Florence received is 3 * 300 = $900, three...
<human>: There were 37 jellybeans in a jar. Pat removed 15 of them. Pat then added 5 of the removed jellybeans back in, and then removed 4 more. How many jellybeans are now in the jar? <bot>: After removing 15 jellybeans, there were 37 - 15 = 22 jellybeans in the jar. After adding back 5 jellybeans, there were 22 + 5 =...
<human>: While shopping, Greg spent 300$ on a shirt and shoes. If Greg spent 9 more than twice as much on shoes as he did a shirt, how much did Greg spend on a shirt? <bot>: Let x be the amount spent on a shirt. Greg spent 2x + 9 dollars on shoes. 300 = x + (2x + 9) 300 = 3 * + 9 291 = 3 * * = 97$ Greg spent 97$ on a...
<human>: Twice the money Jericho has is 60. He owes Annika $14 and also owes half as much to Manny. After paying off all his debts, how much money will Jericho be left with? <bot>: Jericho has $60/2 = $30. He owed Manny $14/2 = $7. His debts amount to $14 + $7 = $21. So Manny will have $30 - $21 = $9 left. #### 9 The a...
<human>: There were a total of 50 guests in a movie screening of which half of the guests are women, 15 are men, and the rest are children. In the middle of the movie, 1/5 of the men and 4 children left. How many people stayed? <bot>: Being women half of the guests, there were 50/2 = 25 women in the movie screening. Ad...
<human>: Tina's bag contains nine apples, 5 oranges, and 17 tangerines. If she took away 2 oranges and 10 tangerines, how many more tangerines than oranges would she have left? <bot>: Tina has 5 - 2 = 3 oranges. Tina has 17 - 10 = 7 tangerines. Tina has 7 - 3 = 4 more tangerines than oranges. #### 4 The answer is: 4
<human>: A psychologist believes one in every four people has a disorder he calls ZYX syndrome. The clinic where he works has recently doubled its previous number of 26 patients. How many patients is the psychologist likely to diagnose with ZYX syndrome? <bot>: The clinic has 26 * 2 = 52 patients. The psychologist beli...
<human>: Jerry bought 48 firecrackers for the 4th of July. A police officer discovered and confiscated 12 of them. 1/6 of the remaining ones were defective. If Jerry set off half the good firecrackers, how many firecrackers did he set off? <bot>: First subtract the 12 confiscated firecrackers from the original number: ...
<human>: A florist is making bouquets for the weekend. The florist uses red, yellow, orange, and purple flowers, and each bouquet contains 9 flowers of any color combinations. This week he planted 125 seeds for each color of flower. Unfortunately, a fungus killed 45 red flowers, 61 yellow, 30 orange, and 40 purple flow...
<human>: Alyssa and Chelsea jointly bought 40 candles to decorate their room. Alyssa used half of them, and Chelsea used 70% of the remaining candles. How many candles are there in the room now? <bot>: Alyssa used half of the candles, which is 1/2 * 40 = 20 candles The number of candles that remained is 40 - 20 = 20 Ch...
<human>: Macy and Piper went to the batting cages. Each token gets you 15 pitches. Macy used 11 tokens and Piper used 17. Macy hit the ball 50 times. Piper hit the ball 55 times. How many pitches did Macy and Piper miss altogether? <bot>: Macy used 11 tokens which are worth 15 pitches each, so 11 tokens * 15 pitches = ...
<human>: Billy is breeding mice for an experiment. He starts with 8 mice, who each have 6 pups. When the pups grow up, all the mice have another 6 pups. Then each adult mouse eats 2 of their pups due to the stress of overcrowding. How many mice are left? <bot>: First find the number of pups in the first generation: 8 m...
<human>: Five shirts together cost $85. Of the 5 shirts, there are 3 shirts that cost $15 each. If the remaining shirts are each equal in value, what is the cost, in dollars, of one of the remaining shirts? <bot>: The first 3 shirts cost 15 * 3 = 45 dollars in total. There are 5 - 3 = 2 shirts remaining. The remaining ...
<human>: A pack of dogs found a pile of bones in the dumpster behind the butcher shop. One by one, the dogs crawled into the dumpster, grabbed a mouthful of bones, and ran off with their newfound treasure. In all, there were 5 dogs. The first dog carried off 3 bones. The second dog carried off 1 less bone than the ...
<human>: Kim orders a $10 meal and a drink for 2.5. She gives a 20% tip. She pays with a $20 bill. How much does she get in change? <bot>: The dinner cost 10 + 2.5 = $12.5. The tip comes to 12.5 * 0.2 = $2.5. So the total cost is 12.5 + 2.5 = $15. That means she gets 20 - 15 = $5 in change. #### 5 The answer is: 5
<human>: Quentavious has 5 nickels. His friend offers him some gum and will give him two pieces per nickel. If Quentavious leaves with 2 nickels, how many pieces of gum did he get? <bot>: He spent 3 nickels because 5 - 2 = 3 He got 6 pieces of gum because 3 * 2 = 6. #### 6 The answer is: 6
<human>: Fred has 38 red marbles, half as many green ones, and the rest are dark blue. If he has 63 marbles, how many of them are dark blue? <bot>: Fred has 38/2 = 19 green marbles. Fred has 63 - 38 - 19 = 6 dark blue marbles. #### 6 The answer is: 6
<human>: Laura bought 2 pairs of pants for $54 each and 4 shirts for $33 each. She gave $250 to the cashier. So how much change did she take? <bot>: 54 * 2 = $108 is the price of 2 pairs of pants. 4 * 33 = $132 is the price of 4 shirts. 108 + 132 = $240 is the total price. So the cashier gave 250 - 240 = $10 change to ...
<human>: Mark bought a shirt, pants, and shoes for $340. What is the price of the pants knowing that the price of a shirt is three-quarters of the price of the pants and that the price of a shoe is ten dollars more than the price of the pants? <bot>: Let X be the price of the pants. The price of the shirt is 3/4 * X. T...
<human>: Nancy bought a pie sliced it into 8 pieces. She gave 1/2 to Joe and Darcy, and she gave 1/4 to Carl. How many slices were left? <bot>: The total number of slices she gave to Joe and Darcy is 1/2 * 8 = 4. The total slice she gave to Carl is 1/4 * 8 = 2. Therefore, the total slices left is 8 - 4 - 2 = 2. #### 2 ...
<human>: Elizabeth wants to buy the steak knives from a bridal registry as a wedding gift. The couple registered for 2 steak knife sets and each set contains 4 steak knives. If Elizabeth buys both sets and they cost $80.00 per set, how much does each single steak knife cost? <bot>: Each steak knife set has 4 steak kn...
<human>: During a recent three-day trip to Italy, Keziah and her mom went mushroom picking. They sold all the mushrooms they picked on the first day for a total of $58. The day after, they picked 12 mushrooms. On the last day, they picked double the mushrooms they had picked the previous day. If the price per mushroom ...
<human>: Jenny lives 5000 feet from her school, and every day she walks home. One day as she was walking home from school, she dropped 1 kernel of popcorn per 25 feet she walked. Later that evening, a squirrel came and ate one-quarter of the popcorn Jenny had dropped on her way home. If Jenny walks to school the fol...
<human>: All people named Barry are nice, while only half of the people named Kevin are nice. Three-fourths of people named Julie are nice, while 10% of people named Joe are nice. If a crowd contains 24 people named Barry, 20 people named Kevin, 80 people named Julie, and 50 people named Joe, how many nice people are...
<human>: James buys 20 coins of a cryptocurrency at $15 each. The value of the coins increases by 2/3. He sells coins to recoup his original investment. How many coins did he sell? <bot>: His original investment was 15 * 20 = $300 The value of his investment increases by 15 * 2/3 = $10 per coin So each coin was wort...
<human>: Randy has some money. He spent $10 buying his lunch. He spent a quarter of the money he had left on an ice cream cone. If the ice cream cone cost $5, what is the amount of money, in dollars, Randy had at first? <bot>: Randy has 5 * 4 = 20 dollars left after buying lunch. Randy had 20 + 10 = 30 dollars at first...
<human>: Mark wants to build a pyramid of soda cases that's four levels tall. Each level of the pyramid has a square base where each side is one case longer than the level above it. The top level is just one case. How many cases of soda does Mark need? <bot>: We know that the top level just has one case. Since each lev...
<human>: Peter knows that the distance an airplane travels between Spain and Russia is 7019 km, while the distance between Spain and Germany is 1615 km. Peter took a flight from Spain, which made a stopover in Germany, while being there, he receives a call from his brother asking him how many kilometers he has to fly t...
<human>: John has to replace the ball bearings for machines he works with. He has 10 machines and they take 30 ball bearings each. It normally costs $1 per ball bearing but right now there is a sale where they are only $.75. Also since he is buying in bulk he gets a further 20% discount. How much money did he save ...
<human>: Each slice of cheesecake contains 350 calories. If there are a total of 2800 calories in every cheesecake, and Kiley ate 25% of the cheesecake, how many slices of cheesecake did Kiley eat? <bot>: If there are 2800 calories in every cheesecake, and each slice of cheesecake contains 350 calories, then the chees...
<human>: Sara's sister has 4 small notebooks in her closet. Last summer she ordered 6 more notebooks and then lost 2. How many notebooks does Sara's sister have now? <bot>: Sara's sister has 4 + 6 = 10 notebooks. After she loses 2, she will have: 10 - 2 = 8 notebooks. #### 8 The answer is: 8
<human>: Meadow has a business that sells baby diapers to her local townspeople. She orders 30 boxes of diapers containing 40 packs weekly, with each pack having 160 diapers. She sells each diaper for $5. How much money is Meadow making from selling all her diapers? <bot>: When she orders 30 boxes, the total number of ...
<human>: Lilith is trying to break the world record for largest cap collection. She collects 3 caps per month in the first year, and 5 caps per month after the first year. Each Christmas, she also receives 40 caps from friends and family. She estimates that each year, she loses 15 of the caps she has collected. If Lili...
<human>: A quarterback steps back to throw 80 times in a game. 30 percent of the time he does not get a pass thrown. Half of the times that he does not throw the ball he is sacked for a loss. How many times is the quarterback sacked for a loss in the game? <bot>: No pass thrown:80(.30) = 24 Sacked:24/2 = 12. #### 12...
<human>: Three years ago, Bethany was twice the age of her younger sister. In 5 years, her younger sister will be 16. How old is Bethany now? <bot>: First find how old Bethany's sister currently is: 16 years - 5 years = 11 years Then find how old her sister was 3 years ago: 11 years - 3 years = 8 years Then double that...
<human>: During the Christmas holidays, all shops are closed for 3 days. During each day during this time, a shop called "Surprise" could have earned 5 thousand dollars. How much potential revenue did the "Surprise" shop lose during 6 years of activity? <bot>: In one day the shop is losing 5 thousand dollars, so during...
<human>: There are twice as many cows in Devonshire as there are hearts on a standard deck of 52 playing cards. If there are 4 hearts on a card, calculate the total cost of the cows when they are sold at $200 each. <bot>: If there are 4 hearts on a card, a standard deck of 52 playing cards will have 208 hearts. There a...
<human>: In a town, there are four primary schools. Two of them can teach 400 students at a time, and the other two 340 students at a time. How many students at a time in total, can these four primary schools teach? <bot>: Two schools can teach 400 students, so in total, they can teach 2 * 400 = 800 students. The other...
<human>: When Doctor Lindsay works in her office, she usually sees 4 adult patients and 3 child patients every hour. If the cost for an adult's office visit is $50, and the cost for a child's office visit is $25, how much money, in dollars, does Doctor Lyndsay receive in a typical 8-hour day for seeing all her patients...
<human>: It takes 2.5 hours to groom a dog and 0.5 hours to groom a cat. What is the number of minutes it takes to groom 5 dogs and 3 cats? <bot>: 2.5 * 5 = 12.5 hours 0.5 * 3 = 1.5 hours 12.5 + 1.5 hours = 14 hours 14 hours = 14 * 60 = 840 minutes It would take 840 minutes to groom 5 dogs and 3 cats. #### 840 The answ...
<human>: Neil baked 20 cookies. He gave 2/5 of the cookies to his friend. How many cookies are left for Neil? <bot>: Neil gave 20 * 2/5 = 8 cookies So he is left with 20 - 8 = 12 cookies. #### 12 The answer is: 12
<human>: Faye had $20. Today, her mother gave her twice as much as her money. If she bought ten cupcakes at $1.50 each and five boxes of cookies at $3 per box, how much money did she have left? <bot>: Faye's mother gave her 2 * $20 = $40. So, Faye had a total of $20 + $40 = $60. Ten cupcakes cost 10 * $1.50 = $15. Five...
<human>: A bicycle shop owner adds 3 bikes to her stock every week. After 1 month, she had sold 18 bikes but still had 45 bikes in stock. How many bikes did she have originally? <bot>: There are approximately 4 weeks in a month. The shop owner added 3 bikes every week for 4 weeks for a total addition of 3 * 4 = 12 bike...
<human>: Susan is taking a two week vacation. She works five days a week and has six days of paid vacation. The rest of her workdays will be unpaid vacation time. She gets paid $15 per hour and works 8 hours a day. How much pay will she miss on her vacation? <bot>: Susan works 2 * 5 = 10 days in two weeks. She is takin...
<human>: A 220-liter barrel has a small leak. It lost 10% of its contents before anyone noticed. How many liters are left in the barrel? <bot>: The barrel lost 220 * 10 / 100 = 22 liters before anyone noticed. So, 220 – 22 = 198 liters are left in the barrel. #### 198 The answer is: 198
<human>: Tom hasn't been sleeping well lately. He figures he has been getting about 5 hours of sleep each weeknight and 6 hours each night on the weekend. If Tom would ideally like to get 8 hours of sleep each night on both weeknights and weekends, how many hours of sleep is Tom behind on from the last week? <bot>: Tom...
<human>: Alexander Bought 22 more joggers than Tyson. Christopher bought twenty times as many joggers as Tyson. If Christopher bought 80 joggers, how many more joggers does Christopher buy than Alexander? <bot>: Tyson bought 80/20 = 4 joggers. Ale * ander bought 4 + 22 = 26 joggers. Christopher bought 80 - 26 = 54 more...
<human>: A class is completing an art project. Each of the 30 students is assigned to a separate group and will need to take markers from the 22 boxes of markers. The first group has 10 students who will have 2 markers each and the second group has 15 students who will have 4 markers each. The last group takes the rema...
<human>: Lola plays basketball on her school team. Her team scored twice at many points at their last home game than their first away game. At the second away game, they scored eighteen points more than the previous away game. At the third away game, they scored two more points than at their second. If Lola’s team scor...
<human>: Moses and Tiffany want to see who is faster. But instead of a race, they just start running down the block. Tiffany runs 6 blocks in 3 minutes. Moses runs 12 blocks in 8 minutes. What is the speed (defined as blocks per minute) of the runner with the higher average speed? <bot>: Tiffany runs 2 blocks per minut...
<human>: Sara makes cakes during the five weekdays to sell on weekends. She makes 4 cakes a day and sells her cakes for $8. In 4 weeks she managed to sell all the cakes. How much money did she collect during that time? <bot>: During the week she makes 5 days/week * 4 cakes/day = 20 cakes. After selling them over the we...
<human>: Three snails raced across a rain-soaked sidewalk. The first snail raced at a speed of 2 feet per minute. The second snail raced at twice the speed of the first snail. And the third snail traveled at five times the rate of speed as the second snail. If it took the first snail 20 minutes to race all the way ...
<human>: On Thursday the Meat Market sold 210kg of ground beef. On Friday they sold twice that amount. On Saturday they only sold 130kg. On Sunday they sold half of what they sold Saturday. If they originally planned to sell only 500kg, how much meat did they sell beyond their original plans? <bot>: On Friday they sold...
<human>: Marissa has 4.5 feet of ribbon that she wants to use to tie some boxes. If 1 foot of ribbon is left after Marissa uses 0.7 feet of ribbon to tie each box, find out how many boxes she tied? <bot>: Marissa used a total of 4.5 - 1 = 3.5 feet of ribbon to the boxes. Thus, there were 3.5/0.7 = 5 boxes. #### 5 The a...
<human>: During a fundraiser, each of the 20 members of a group sold candy bars which costs $0.50 each. If each member sold an average of 8 candy bars, how much money did they earn from their candy bars sales, in dollars? <bot>: The group was able to sell 20 * 8 = 160 candy bars. So, they got 160 * $0.5 = $80 from thei...
<human>: Bruce can make 15 batches of pizza dough using a sack of flour. If he uses 5 sacks of flour per day, how many pizza doughs can he make in a week? <bot>: He can make 15 * 5 = 75 batches of pizza dough per day. Therefore, Bruce can make 75 x 7 days in a week = 525 batches of pizza dough in a week. #### 525 The a...
<human>: Chester must deliver ten bales of hay to Farmer Brown. Farmer Brown wants Chester to supply better quality hay and double the delivery of bales of hay. If the previous hay cost $15 per bale, and the better quality one cost $18 per bale, how much more money will Farmer Brown need to meet his own new requirement...
<human>: Oliver is trying to decide between two different sized boxes of macaroni and cheese. He wants to know which is the better value, so instead of just looking at the overall price, he looks at the price per ounce. The larger box is 30 ounces and the smaller box is 20 ounces. The larger box costs $4.80. The smalle...
<human>: Roland needs a length of thread to complete an exercise. He has a 12cm long thread but his teacher says he needs an additional three-quarters of what he has. What is the total length required? <bot>: An additional three - quarters of 12cm is needed which is 12cm * (3/4) = 9cm The total length required is 12cm ...
<human>: Donald drinks 3 more than twice the number of juice bottles Paul drinks in one day. If Paul drinks 3 bottles of juice per day, how many bottles does Donald drink per day? <bot>: Twice the number of bottles Paul drinks in one day is 3 * 2 = 6 bottles. So, the number of bottles that Donald drinks in one day is 6...
<human>: During the Easter egg hunt, Kevin found 5 eggs, Bonnie found 13 eggs, George found 9 and Cheryl found 56. How many more eggs did Cheryl find than the other three children found? <bot>: We know that Kevin found 5, Bonnie found 13 and George found 9 so 5 + 13 + 9 = 27 Cheryl found 56 eggs while the others found...
<human>: James scored 13 field goals worth 3 points and 20 shots worth two points. How many total points did he score? <bot>: The field goals were worth 3 * 13 = 39 points The two - point shots were worth 2 * 20 = 40 points So the total score is 39 + 40 = 79 points. #### 79 The answer is: 79
<human>: Rebecca bought 22 items for her camping trip, including tent stakes, packets of drink mix, and bottles of water. She bought 3 times as many packets of drink mix as tent stakes. She also bought 2 more bottles of water than she did tent stakes. How many tent stakes did she buy? <bot>: Let x represent the numb...
<human>: Bingo has two dogs. On average, they walk a total of 70 miles a week. The first dog walks an average of 2 miles a day. How many miles a day does the other dog average? <bot>: The first dog walks 14 miles in a week because 7 * 2 = 14 The second dog walks 56 miles in a week because 70 - 14 = 56 The second dog wa...
<human>: A store owner ordered 20 cases of bottles of soda in April and 30 cases in May. There are 20 bottles per case. How many bottles of soda did the store owner order in April and May? <bot>: The store owner ordered a total of 20 + 30 = 50 cases. This is equal to 50 * 20 = 1000 bottles of soda. #### 1000 The answer...
<human>: Louise is organizing her pencils, and decides she wants her boxes arranged by color. Each box holds 20 pencils each. She has 20 red pencils, twice as many blue pencils, 40 yellow pencils, and has as many green pencils as she has red and blue pencils combined. How many boxes does Louise need? <bot>: Louise has ...
<human>: Buoys are placed in the ocean at even intervals away from the beach to help swimmers monitor how far away from the beach they have swum. If a swimmer reaches the third buoy, they have swum out 72 meters. How many meters from the beach is the fourth buoy? <bot>: The buoys are evenly spaced, so the first buoy is...
<human>: A jar of jellybeans has 14 blue jellybeans, 26 purple jellybeans and 40 orange jellybeans. If there are 200 jellybeans in the jar, how many are there of the red color? <bot>: Total of blue, purple, and orange jellybeans is 14 + 26 + 40 = 80 There are 200 - 80 = 120 red jellybeans. #### 120 The answer is: 120
<human>: Gina is participating in a neighborhood clean-up filling bags with litter. She was able to collect two bags of litter herself. The rest of the neighborhood together collected 82 times as much as Gina did by herself. Each bag of litter weighs 4 pounds. How many pounds was all the litter they collected? <bot>: T...
<human>: Rocco stores his coins in piles of 10 coins each. He has 4 piles of quarters, 6 piles of dimes, 9 piles of nickels, and 5 piles of pennies. How much money does Rocco have? <bot>: Each pile has 10 coins, so he has: 10 * 4 * $.25 = $10.00 worth of quarters, 10 * 6 * $.10 = $6.00 worth of dimes, 10 * 9 * $.05 = $...
<human>: Tony drives a car that gets 25 miles to the gallon. He drives 50 miles round trip to work 5 days a week. His tank holds 10 gallons. He begins the week with a full tank and when he runs out he fills up at the local gas station for $2 a gallon. How much money does Tony spend on gas in 4 weeks? <bot>: First, ...
<human>: Joseph had 16 baseball cards. He gave 3/8 of the cards to his brother and 2 cards to his brother. What percentage of the cards is left to Joseph? <bot>: Joseph gave 16 * 3/8 = 6 cards to his brother. He gave a total of 6 + 2 = 8 cards to his brother and friend. Joseph has 16 - 8 = 8 cards left. This is 8/16 x ...
<human>: Edith is a receptionist at a local office and is organizing files into cabinets. She had 60 files and finished organizing half of them this morning. She has another 15 files to organize in the afternoon and the rest of the files are missing. How many files are missing? <bot>: Edith has already organized 60 fil...
<human>: Six more than twice as many ducks go to North Pond as go to Lake Michigan. If Lake Michigan has 100 ducks, how many ducks can you safely estimate there will be at North Pond? <bot>: To determine the number of ducks at North Pond, we must first perform 100 * 2 = 200 to find the number to add 6 ducks to. We then...
<human>: Susie opens a pizza store. She charges $3 per slice and $15 for a whole pizza. If she was able to sell 24 slices of pizza and 3 whole pizzas, how much money did she earn? <bot>: She was able to earn 24 * 3 = $72 after selling 24 slices. She earned 15 * 3 = $45 after selling 3 whole pizzas. Therefore, she earne...
<human>: There are 56 pieces of fruit in a box. One-fourth of the box contains oranges. There are half as many peaches as oranges and five times as many apples as peaches. How many apples are in the box? <bot>: Oranges = 56 * 1/4 = 14 oranges Peaches = half of oranges = 14/2 = 7 peaches Apples = 5 * peaches = 5 * 7 = 3...