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John buys 2 dozen cookies. He eats 3. How many cookies does he have left? | gsm8k |
Benjie is five years older than Margo. If Benjie is 6 years old, how old will Margo be in three years? | gsm8k |
There are 15 students in the art club. By the end of each quarter, each student makes two artworks. If there are four quarters in a school year, how many artworks can the art club collect in two school years? | gsm8k |
There are 12 more green apples than red apples in a bowl. There are 16 red apples. How many apples are there in the bowl? | gsm8k |
Brody’s calculator can run for 60 hours on a full battery. Brody has used three quarters of its battery up, and he is about to take a two-hour math exam that will require his calculator the whole time. How many hours of battery will Brody’s calculator have left? | gsm8k |
Sally was at a self-serve candy shop where you scoop candy from the bins and pay based on the weight. She scoops 32 cherry sours into a bag. Then she gets a scoop of lemon sours, and the ratio of cherry sours to lemon sours is 4:5. Then she gets a scoop of orange sours, and they make up 25% of the sours in the bag. How many sours does she have in total? | gsm8k |
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? | gsm8k |
Guise went to a restaurant and ate ten hot dogs on a Monday. That week, he ate two more dogs each day than the previous day. How many hot dogs had Guise eaten by Wednesday that week? | gsm8k |
In four years, Suzy will be twice Mary's age then. If Suzy is 20 now, how old is Mary? | gsm8k |
Gunther just financed a John Deere tractor through the dealership. If his monthly payment is $150.00 a month, for 5 years, with no interest, how much did he finance the tractor for? | gsm8k |
The dog toys Samantha buys for her dog are "buy one get one half off" and all cost $12.00 each. She buys 4 toys. How much does she spend on dog toys? | gsm8k |
Debelyn, Christel, and Andrena collect dolls. Debelyn had 20 dolls before she gave Andrena 2 dolls. Christel had 24 dolls before giving Andrena 5 dolls. After all the gifts, Andrena now has 2 more dolls than Christel, how many more dolls does andrena have now than Debelyn? | gsm8k |
Napoleon has 17 jelly beans and Sedrich has 4 more jelly beans than Napoleon. If twice the sum of Napoleon and Sedrich's jelly beans is 4 times the number of jelly beans that Mikey has, how many jelly beans does Mikey have? | gsm8k |
Millie, Monica, and Marius are taking subjects for school. Millie takes three more subjects than Marius, who takes 4 subjects more than Monica. If Monica took 10 subjects, how many subjects all take altogether? | gsm8k |
Gus eats 2 eggs-omelet for breakfast. He has an egg salad sandwich made with 3 eggs for lunch. He then has an egg drop soup made with 1 egg for dinner. How many eggs did Gus eat altogether? | gsm8k |
In a week, Mortdecai collects 8 dozen eggs every Tuesday and Thursday, and he delivers 3 dozen eggs to the market and 5 dozen eggs to the mall. He then uses 4 dozen eggs to make a pie every Saturday. Mortdecai donates the remaining eggs to the charity by Sunday. How many eggs does he donate to the charity? | gsm8k |
A leaf is being blown down a sidewalk by swirling gusts of wind. For every five feet that a gust blows it forward, the wind swirls and blows it back two feet. How many feet has it traveled down the sidewalk after 11 gusts of wind? | gsm8k |
Audrey was asleep for 10 hours last night and dreamed for 2/5 of the time. How much of the night was she not dreaming? | gsm8k |
Rachel makes $12.00 as a waitress in a coffee shop. In one hour, she serves 20 different people and they all leave her a $1.25 tip. How much money did she make in that hour? | gsm8k |
Nine members of the crafts club are making 2 necklaces each. It takes 50 beads to make each necklace. How many beads will they need in all? | gsm8k |
Mr. Gardner bakes 20 cookies, 25 cupcakes, and 35 brownies for his second-grade class of 20 students. If he wants to give each student an equal amount of sweet treats, how many sweet treats will each student receive? | gsm8k |
Forty percent of the students have elected to learn from home during the pandemic. The remaining students are divided into two equal groups, only one of which is physically in school on any day. What percent of students are present in school? | gsm8k |
Fran baked 50 red macaroons and 40 green macarons. How many macaroons will remain if Fran ate 15 green macaroons and twice as many red macaroons as green macaroons? | gsm8k |
There are 30 players on a football team. The coach has 8 liters of water. She pours 200 milliliters of water for every player so they can get hydrated. Unfortunately, there was a water spill and 250ml of water was spilled. How much water was left over? | gsm8k |
Ian won $100 in the lottery. He decided to use the money to pay off debts. He paid $20 to Colin. He then paid twice as much to Helen, as he had paid to Colin. Then finally, he paid half as much to Benedict, as he had paid to Helen. How much money, in dollars, does he have left after paying off debts? | gsm8k |
Tony has a terrible toothache and decides to buy some painkillers from the store. He picks up a bottle of 50 pills and takes them home. He takes 2 pills each day three times a day for the first 2 days, before cutting this amount in half for the next 3 days. On the sixth day, he takes a final 2 pills in the morning and ends up feeling better. How many pills are left in the bottle? | gsm8k |
Super Clean Car Wash Company cleans 80 cars per day. They make $5 per car washed. How much money will they make in 5 days? | gsm8k |
Linda makes and sells necklaces at craft fairs. At her most recent fair she sold 4 necklaces and 8 rings for a total of $80. If each necklace costs $12, how much does each ring cost? | gsm8k |
Marnie makes bead bracelets. She bought 5 bags of 50 beads and 2 bags of 100 beads. If 50 beads are used to make one bracelet, how many bracelets will Marnie be able to make out of the beads she bought? | gsm8k |
Jed collects stamp cards. Every week, he gets 6 cards. But every two weeks, he gives 2 cards to his friends. If Jed started with 20 cards, after how many weeks will he have a total of 40 cards? | gsm8k |
A park is 1000 feet long and 2000 feet wide. If there is 1 tree per 20 square feet, how many trees are there in the park? | gsm8k |
Eastern rattlesnakes have 6 segments in their tails, while Western rattlesnakes have 8 segments. What is the percentage difference in their tail size, expressed as a percentage of the Western rattlesnake's tail size? | gsm8k |
Five food companies sponsored a local food bank. Foster Farms donated 45 dressed chickens; American Summits donated twice the number of bottled water than the number of dressed chicken donated by Foster Farms; Hormel donated three times the number of dressed chickens that Foster Farms donated; Boudin Butchers donated one-third of the number of dressed chickens that Hormel donated; Del Monte Foods donated 30 fewer bottles of water than American Summits. How many food items did the companies donate in total? | gsm8k |
If Jenna has twice as much money in her bank account as Phil does, and Phil has one-third the amount of money that Bob has in his account, and Bob has $60 in his account, how much less money does Jenna have in her account than Bob? | gsm8k |
Susan had a bouquet of 3 dozen roses. She gave half to her daughter, and then placed the rest in a vase. The next day, one-third of the flowers in the vase were wilted. After removing the wilted flowers, how many flowers remained in the vase? | gsm8k |
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? | gsm8k |
It’s February 2021. Mark was born in January 1976. Graham is 3 years younger than Mark, and Graham’s sister, Janice, is 1/2 the age of Graham. How old is Janice? | gsm8k |
John works 12 hours every other day. He gets a 30% raise from his former $20 an hour job. How much does he make in a 30 day month? | gsm8k |
Emily bought 9 packs of candy necklaces to give her classmates at school for Valentine’s Day. Each pack had 8 candy necklaces in it. Emily opened one pack at a time. After her classmates took as many as they wanted, there were 40 candy necklaces left. How many packs did Emily open for her classmates? | gsm8k |
Katy, Wendi, and Carrie went to a bread-making party. Katy brought three 5-pound bags of flour. Wendi brought twice as much flour as Katy, but Carrie brought 5 pounds less than the amount of flour Wendi brought. How much more flour, in ounces, did Carrie bring than Katy? | gsm8k |
If Brooke adds eight balloons to his current 12, and Tracy adds 24 to her current 6, how many balloons will they have in total if Tracy pops half of her balloons? | gsm8k |
Jim is a maintenance worker at a pool. Every time someone jumps in the pool, they cause 400 ml of water to splash out and evaporate. Jim has to get everyone out of the pool, clean, and refill it when it gets below 80% full. If the pool holds 2000 L of water, how many times can people jump in the pool before Jim has to clean it? | gsm8k |
The tallest building in the world is 100 feet tall. If the second tallest is half that tall, and the third tallest is half as tall as the second, and the fourth is one-fifth as tall as the third, how tall are all 4 buildings put together? | gsm8k |
Shawn collected 40 plain pebbles. He painted 9 pebbles red and 13 pebbles blue. He then divided the remaining pebbles equally into 3 groups, and painted them purple, yellow, and green. What is the difference between the number of blue and yellow pebbles? | gsm8k |
Anna has 50 pencils and Harry has twice the number of Anna’s Pencils but he lost 19 of them. How many pencils are left with Harry? | gsm8k |
Derrick measures the length of his yard. The length of Alex's yard is half the size of Derrick's and the length of Brianne's yard is 6 times the size of Alex's. If Brianne's yard is 30 yards long, how long is Derrick's yard, in yards? | gsm8k |
Rachel is twice as old as Rona and Collete's age is half the age of Rona's. If Rona is 8 years old, what is the difference between the age of Collete and Rachel? | gsm8k |
Charley has a bag that contains 51 white beads and 90 black beads. He reaches in the bag and pulls out 1/6 of the black beads and a third of the white beads. How many beads in total did Charley pull out? | gsm8k |
There is a 5,200 sq. ft. house and a 7,300 sq. ft. house next to each other. The smaller house is being expanded. If the new total square footage of both houses is 16,000 sq. ft., how much is the smaller house being expanded by, in sq. ft.? | gsm8k |
John started weightlifting when he was 16. When he first started he could Clean & Jerk 80 kg and he could Snatch 50 kg. He manages to double his clean and jerk and increase his snatch by 80%. What is his new combined total lifting capacity? | gsm8k |
Bob gets rent assistance because he's low-income. If he gets a raise of $0.50/hour and works 40 hours a week, how much more will he actually earn a week if his housing benefit is reduced by $60/month? | gsm8k |
Joe saves $6,000 for his trip to Australia. If he spends $1,200 on the flight, $800 on a hotel, and $3,000 on food, how much money, in dollars, does he have left? | gsm8k |
A giant spider is discovered. It weighs 2.5 times the previous largest spider, which weighed 6.4 ounces. Each of its legs has a cross-sectional area of .5 square inches. How much pressure in ounces per square inch does each leg undergo? | gsm8k |
At the polar bear club, Jerry and his three friends, Elaine, George, and Kramer, took turns jumping into a swimming pool filled with freezing-cold water. Jerry was in the pool for 3 minutes before becoming too cold to remain in the cold water. Elaine stayed in the pool for twice as long as Jerry. George could only stay in the pool for one-third as long as Elaine. And Kramer, who accidentally locked himself in the bathroom, could not find the pool. What is the combined total of minutes that Jerry and his friends were in the cold water? | gsm8k |
A pound of strawberries costs $2.20 and a pound of cherries costs 6 times as much as strawberries. If Briget will buy 5 pounds of strawberries and 5 pounds of cherries, how much will it cost? | gsm8k |
Dexter and Jay are using a gallon of white paint to paint the walls. Dexter used 3/8 of the gallon of paint while Jay used 5/8 of a gallon of paint. If a gallon is equal to 4 liters, how many liters of paint were left from Dexter and Jay combined? | gsm8k |
Chris wanted to buy a new video game that costs $60 as well as an assortment of candy that costs $5. To earn the money, he agreed to babysit his little sister for $8 per hour. If he works 9 hours, how much money will be left over after he makes his purchases? | gsm8k |
Wild Bill can shoot a pistol while riding his horse at full speed. His horse runs at 20 feet per second, and a bullet fired from his gun flies at a speed of 400 feet per second. But if he fires a gun while riding his horse, and the gun is aimed in the same direction that the horse is running, how much faster, in feet per second, is the bullet flying than if he fires the bullet in the opposite direction of what the horse was running? | gsm8k |
The ratio representing the age of Halima, Beckham, and Michelle is 4:3:7, respectively. If the total age for the three siblings is 126, calculate the age difference between Halima and Beckham. | gsm8k |
In a field of 500 clovers, 20% have four leaves and one quarter of these are purple clovers. Assuming these proportions are exactly correct, how many clovers in the field are both purple and four-leaved? | gsm8k |
Gina's snake eats one mouse every 4 weeks. How many mice will it eat in a decade? | gsm8k |
McKenna has 34 stuffed animals. Kenley has twice as many as McKenna. Tenly has 5 more than Kenley . How many stuffed animals do the three girls have in all? | gsm8k |
Joey has 30 pages to read for history class tonight. He decided that he would take a break when he finished reading 70% of the pages assigned. How many pages must he read after he takes a break? | gsm8k |
Ivan has a piggy bank that can hold 100 pennies and 50 dimes. How much, in dollars, does Ivan have if he has filled his two piggy banks with those coins? | gsm8k |
Natalie's father has saved up $10,000 to split up between his kids. Natalie will get half, as she is the oldest. Rick will get 60 percent of the remaining money, and Lucy will get whatever is left after Natilie and Rick get paid. How much money does Lucy get? | gsm8k |
Tom’s cat is 8 years old. His rabbit is half the age of his cat. His dog is three times as old as his rabbit. How old is the dog? | gsm8k |
If Clover goes for a 1.5-mile walk in the morning and another 1.5-mile walk in the evening, every day, how many miles does he walk in 30 days? | gsm8k |
Venus is at the deli to get subs for a party. She needs 81 inches of sub. The shop sells 5 and 8 inch subs. If she buys two 8 inch subs, how many 5 inch subs does she need to buy? | gsm8k |
Lilibeth and her friends go strawberry picking. Lilibeth fills 6 baskets where each basket holds 50 strawberries. If three of Lilibeth's friends pick the same amount as her, how many strawberries do Lilibeth and her friends pick in all? | gsm8k |
Bob runs 6 miles per hour. His friend Jim runs at 9 miles per hour. If Bob has a 1 mile head-start, how many minutes will it take before Jim catches him? | gsm8k |
A party hall has 3 decorative light bulbs; a red light bulb which comes on every 2 seconds, a green one every 3 seconds and a blue one every 4 seconds. If they are put on at the same time, what is the shortest time after which the three bulbs will be on at the same time? | gsm8k |
A train takes 2 hours longer to go an equal distance of a car. If the car and the train leave station A at the same time, and the car reaches station B 4.5 hours later, calculate the combined time the car and the train take to reach station B. | gsm8k |
Zainab earns $2 an hour passing out flyers at the town square. She passes out flyers on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday each week, for 4 hours at a time. After passing out flyers for 4 weeks, how much money will Zainab earn? | gsm8k |
Marc bought 5 model cars that cost $20 each and 5 bottles of paint that cost $10 each. He also bought 5 paintbrushes that cost $2 each. How much did Marc spend in total? | gsm8k |
Bill's roof can bear 500 pounds of weight. If 100 leaves fall on his roof every day, and 1000 leaves weighs 1 pound, how many days will it take for his roof to collapse? | gsm8k |
John and his two brothers decide to split the cost of an apartment. It is 40% more expensive than John's old apartment which costs $1200 per month. How much does John save per year by splitting the apartment compared to living alone? | gsm8k |
On Saturdays and Sundays, Suzanne makes french toast for the family. She and her husband each have 1 whole slice and her daughters split 1 slice. She uses a thick sliced bread that comes 12 slices per loaf. Over 52 weeks, how many loaves of bread will she need to make french toast? | gsm8k |
One set of barrettes costs $3 each, and one comb costs $1 each. Kristine buys one set of barrettes and one comb. Crystal buys three sets of barrettes and one comb. How much do the two girls spend altogether? | gsm8k |
Jason goes to the library 4 times more often than William goes. If William goes 2 times per week to the library, how many times does Jason go to the library in 4 weeks? | gsm8k |
Mr. Johnson is organizing the school Christmas play and needs 50 volunteers to help with decorating the auditorium. 5 students from each of the school’s 6 math classes have volunteered to help. 13 teachers have also volunteered to help. How many more volunteers will Mr. Johnson need? | gsm8k |
Jean is trying to motivate herself to write her final paper. She eats one donut per 2 pages that she writes. If she writes 12 pages and each donut has 150 calories, how many calories does she eat? | gsm8k |
Nancy agreed to pay 40% of the cost of her daughter's car insurance, which costs $80 a month. How much will Nancy pay each year? | gsm8k |
There are 4 carriages in a train and each carriage has 25 seats. If each carriage could accommodate 10 more passengers, how many passengers would fill up 3 trains? | gsm8k |
A boat carrying 20 sheep, 10 cows and 14 dogs capsized. 3 of the sheep drowned. Twice as many cows drowned as did sheep. All of the dogs made it to shore. How many total animals made it to the shore? | gsm8k |
Jaylen’s dog eats 1 cup of dog food in the morning and 1 cup of dog food in the evening. If she buys a bag that has 32 cups of dog food, how many days can she feed her dog with it? | gsm8k |
Mr. Ha owns 5 more silver dollars than Mr. Phung. Mr. Phung has 16 more silver dollars than Mr. Chiu has. If Mr. Chiu has 56 silver dollars, how many silver dollars the three have in total? | gsm8k |
Kimberley, Ela, and Houston all are sent to collect firewood by their grammy. Kimberley collects ten pounds of firewood, and Houston collects 12 pounds of firewood. If the three of them managed to collect a total of 35 pounds of firewood, how many pounds were collected by Ela? | gsm8k |
Joyce, Michael, Nikki, and Ryn have a favorite movie. Joyce's favorite movie is 2 hours longer than Michael's movie. Nikki's movie is three times as long as Michael's movie, and Ryn's favorite movie is 4/5 times as long as Nikki's favorite movie. If Nikki's favorite movie is 30 hours long, calculate the total number of hours of their favorite movies together. | gsm8k |
Belle eats 4 dog biscuits and 2 rawhide bones every evening. If each rawhide bone is $1, and each dog biscuit is $0.25, then how much does it cost, in dollars, to feed Belle these treats for a week? | gsm8k |
The total distance between 2 towns is 200 miles. Roger and his friend drove 1/4 of the total distance, taking 1 hour to do so. They take lunch for another 1 hour and then drove the remaining distance going at the same speed as before. What's the total amount of time, in hours, Roger and his friend took to travel between the two towns? | gsm8k |
In 3 years, Jayden will be half of Ernesto's age. If Ernesto is 11 years old, how many years old is Jayden now? | gsm8k |
At the pet store, there are 7 puppies and 6 kittens for sale. Two puppies and three kittens are sold. How many pets remain at the store? | gsm8k |
A loaf of bread was sliced into 15. Ten friends bought 4 loaves of bread. If they all eat all 4 loaves equally, how many slices of bread did each of them eat? | gsm8k |
Three-quarters of the oil from a 4000-liter tank (that was initially full) was poured into a 20000-liter capacity tanker that already had 3000 liters of oil. How many more liters of oil would be needed to make the large tanker half-full? | gsm8k |
Jason has three times as many toys as John. If John has 6 more toys than Rachel and Rachel has 1 toy, how many toys does Jason have? | gsm8k |
Tom needs to buy a new gaming system. He trades in his super Nintendo for an original NES. The SNES is worth $150 and the store gives him 80% of that value. He gives $80 and gets back $10 change and a game worth $30. How much was the NES on sale for? | gsm8k |
Johann had 60 oranges. He decided to eat 10. Once he ate them, half were stolen by Carson. Carson returned exactly 5. How many oranges does Johann have now? | gsm8k |
Jean is a customer service rep and answered 35 phone calls on Monday. On Tuesday, she answered 46 and took 27 calls on Wednesday. On Thursday she answered 61 calls and finished off answering 31 calls on Friday. What’s the average number of calls she answers per day? | gsm8k |
After eating half of the number of fruits he had, Martin remained with twice as many oranges as limes. If he has 50 oranges now, how many fruits did he initially have? | gsm8k |
Tim decides to start selling necklaces he makes. He uses 10 charms to make each necklace. Each charm cost $15. He sells the necklace for $200. How much profit does he make if he sells 30? | gsm8k |