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Sarah, Mary, and Tuan decided to go to the restaurant for a meal. They decided to split the cost of the meal evenly. If the total price of the meal comes to $67 and they have a coupon for $4, how much does each person need to contribute to the bill? | gsm8k |
Gary has 30 grams of gold that cost $15 per gram. Anna has 50 grams of gold for the cost of $20 per gram. How much is the cost of their gold combined? | gsm8k |
Bart makes a mixtape. The first side has 6 songs. The second side has 4 songs. Each song is 4 minutes. How long is the total tape? | gsm8k |
Mark is filling a punch bowl that can hold 16 gallons of punch. He fills it part way, then his cousin comes along and drinks half the punch in the bowl. Mark starts to refill the bowl and adds 4 more gallons, but then his friend Sally comes in and drinks 2 more gallons of punch. After that, Mark has to add 12 gallons of punch to completely fill the bowl. How much punch did Mark initially add to the bowl? | gsm8k |
Dr. Banks had 330 toothbrushes to give away to his patients. He gave away 53 toothbrushes in January. He gave away 67 toothbrushes in February. In March he gave away 46 toothbrushes. In April and May, he gave away the remaining toothbrushes, half each month. How many more toothbrushes did Dr. Banks give out in the busiest month versus the slowest month? | gsm8k |
The outdoor scouts went on a hike to see a waterfall. To get to the hike, the club members took 3 cars, 6 taxis and 2 vans. There were 4 people in each car, 6 people in each taxis and 5 people in each van. How many people went on the hike? | gsm8k |
Luna, the poodle, is supposed to eat 2 cups of kibble every day. But Luna's master, Mary, and her husband, Frank, sometimes feed Luna too much kibble. One day, starting with a new, 12-cup bag of kibble, Mary gave Luna 1 cup of kibble in the morning and 1 cup of kibble in the evening, But on the same day, Frank also gave Luna 1 cup of kibble in the afternoon and twice as much in the late evening as he had given Luna in the afternoon. The next morning, how many cups of kibble will Mary find remaining in the bag? | gsm8k |
Thirty-six marbles are divided between Mario and Manny in the ratio 4:5. If Manny decided to give 2 marbles to his brother, how many marbles does Manny have now? | gsm8k |
Catherine had an equal number of pencils and pens. If she had 60 pens and gave eight pens and 6 pencils to each of her seven friends and kept the rest for herself, how many pens and pencils did she have left? | gsm8k |
On March 1st the sun sets at 6 PM. Every day after the sun sets 1.2 minutes later. It is 6:10 PM and 40 days after March 1st. How many minutes until the sun sets? | gsm8k |
Jenny is working on a school project. She spends 10 hours doing research for the project and 2 hours writing a proposal. If she has 20 hours total to work on the project, how many hours does she have left to write her report? | gsm8k |
Harly's animal shelter has 80 dogs. She adopts out 40% of them but then has to take back 5 because of personality conflicts with other dogs in their adopted homes. How many dogs does she have now? | gsm8k |
Abie had 20 bags of chips. She gave 4 bags to her friend and bought another 6 bags of chips in the store. How many bags of chips does Abie have in the end? | gsm8k |
Emery's family decides to travel for a weekend trip. They drive the first 100 miles in 1 hour. They stop at a McDonald's and then continue the rest of the journey for 300 miles. What's the total number of hours they traveled? | gsm8k |
Bill and Ted head to the river to throw stuff into the water. Bill throws 6 more sticks into the river than Ted does, but Ted tosses twice as many rocks into the river as Bill. If Ted tosses 10 sticks and 10 rocks into the river, how many objects did Bill toss into the river? | gsm8k |
In a grocery store, Julia bought 2 pieces of Snickers and 3 packs of M&M's. If each piece of Snickers costs $1.5 and a pack of M&M's has the same cost as 2 Snickers, how much is Julia's change if she gave the cashier 2 $10 bills? | gsm8k |
Peter and Andrew like to run in the morning. Peter runs 3 miles more than Andrew's 2 miles. After 5 days, how many miles have they both run? | gsm8k |
Tim gets 6 hours of sleep 2 days in a row. To make up for it he sleeps 10 hours the next 2 days. How much sleep did he get? | gsm8k |
Terry drives at a speed of 40 miles per hour. He drives daily forth and back from his home to his workplace which is 60 miles away from his home. How many hours does Terry spend driving from home to the workplace and then back? | gsm8k |
John was 66 inches tall. He had a growth spurt and grew 2 inches per month for 3 months. How tall is he in feet? | gsm8k |
The company's data entry team had 5 employees working on a large project. Rudy types 64 words per minute, Joyce types 76 words per minute, Gladys types 91 words per minute, Lisa types 80 words per minute and Mike types 89 words per minute. What is the team's average typed words per minute? | gsm8k |
Louise is baking cakes for a gathering. She needs 60 cakes in total, and has already produced half this many. Today, she calculates how many cakes she has left to make and bakes half this amount. The next day, she again calculates how many cakes she has left to make and bakes a third of this amount. How many more cakes does Louise need to bake? | gsm8k |
Josh has $300 in his wallet, and $2000 invested in a business. If the business's stock price rises 30% and then he sells all of his stocks, how much money will he have in his wallet? | gsm8k |
Max has 8 children and each of his children has the same number of children as he does except for 2 who have 5 children each. How many grandchildren does he have? | gsm8k |
Abel leaves for a vacation destination 1000 miles away driving 50 miles per hour. An hour later Alice leaves from the same point for the same destination, traveling 40 miles per hour. How much earlier does Abel reach the destination in minutes?? | gsm8k |
Denmark wants to order pizza. For toppings, he has 3 cheese, 4 meat and 5 vegetable options, one of which is peppers. He can have only one selection from each topping category (one cheese, one meat and one vegetable). However, if he chooses to have pepperoni, he cannot have peppers. How many topping combinations does he have total? | gsm8k |
Tim drops a ball off the roof of a 96-foot tall building. The ball bounces to half the height from which it fell on each bounce. How high will it bounce on the fifth bounce? | gsm8k |
Brenda is a vet who needs to spay some cats and twice as many dogs. If she needs to spay 21 animals total today, how many cats does she need to spay? | gsm8k |
The epic poem currently contains 24 lines. If a person adds 3 lines to the poem every month, in how many months will the poem contain 90 lines? | gsm8k |
Georgina owns a parrot and is teaching it to speak. So far, the parrot knows seventeen phrases. If she is teaching it two phrases a week and it already knew three phrases when she bought it, how many days has Georgina had it? | gsm8k |
Wally buys bears at the park. A bear is priced at $4.00 for the first bear and a discount of 50 cents per bear is given after that. How much does Wally pay for 101 bears? | gsm8k |
Alberto spent $2457 on a new engine for his car. Samara spent $25 on oil, $467 on tires and $79 on detailing for her car. How many more dollars did Alberto spend on his car? | gsm8k |
John hits 70% of his free throws. For every foul he gets 2 shots. He gets fouled 5 times a game. How many free throws does he get if he plays in 80% of the 20 games the team plays? | gsm8k |
Alfred is storing a tonne of maize each month for the next 2 years. If 5 tonnes are stolen and 8 tonnes are given to him as a donation, how many tonnes of maize does he have at the end of the 2 years. | gsm8k |
A farmer plants his vegetables in neat rows. He has 64 bean seedlings and plants 8 seedlings in a row. He also has 84 pumpkin seeds and plants 7 seeds in a row. Recently, he planted 48 radishes with 6 radishes in a row. If the farmer plants two rows per plant bed, how many plant beds did he have for all his plants? | gsm8k |
James decides he needs to start eating more vegetables. He starts by eating a quarter pound of asparagus and a quarter pound of broccoli per day. After 2 weeks, he doubles that amount and adds 3 pounds of kale per week. How many pounds of vegetables does he eat a week after adding the kale? | gsm8k |
10 boxes each contain 50 bottles of water. Each bottle has a capacity of 12 liters and is filled up to 3/4 of its capacity. How many liters of water altogether are contained within the bottles in the boxes? | gsm8k |
If Tony normally has a temperature of 95 degrees, and he comes down with a sickness that raises his temperature by 10 degrees, how many degrees above the threshold of fever is his temperature if a fever is anything over 100 degrees? | gsm8k |
After shearing her 200 sheep, Azalea paid the shearer who had come to help her with the work $2000 for his job. Each of the sheared sheep produced 10 pounds of wool. If Ms. Azalea sold a pound of wool at $20, how much profit did she make from the produce of her sheep farm? | gsm8k |
Aubrey has a deck of cards with 52 cards in it. She then adds two additional cards to the deck. If she splits the deck evenly among herself and two other players, how many cards does each player have? | gsm8k |
Sanya can wash 7 bath towels in one wash, which will take 1 hour. She only has 2 hours in a day to do this task. If she has 98 bath towels, how many days will she need to wash all of them? | gsm8k |
Leo has to write a 400-word story for his literature class. 10 words fit on each line of his notebook and 20 lines fit on each page. Lucas has filled one and a half pages. How many words does he have left to write? | gsm8k |
Annie was given a pack of crayons. The pack contained 21 crayons. She already had a box of 36 crayons in her locker. Her friend Bobby gave her half the amount she already had in her locker. She decided to give her sister Mary 1/3 of her total amount of crayons. How many crayons does she give to Mary? | gsm8k |
Yoque borrowed money from her sister. She promised to pay it back in 11 months including an additional 10% of the money she borrowed. If she pays $15 per month, how much money did she borrow? | gsm8k |
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? | gsm8k |
For a school fundraiser, Chandler needs to sell 12 rolls of wrapping paper. So far, he has sold 3 rolls to his grandmother, 4 rolls to his uncle, and 3 rolls to a neighbor. How many more rolls of wrapping paper does Chandler need to sell? | gsm8k |
John buys 1/2 gallon jugs of cold brew coffee every 4 days. How many cups of coffee does he drink a day? | gsm8k |
Tyler has 21 CDs. He gives away a third of his CDs to his friend. Then he goes to the music store and buys 8 brand new CDs. How many CDs does Tyler have now? | gsm8k |
At the duck park, there are 25 mallard ducks and ten less than twice as many geese as ducks. Then, a small flock of 4 ducks arrived at the park and joined the birds already there. If five less than 15 geese leave the park, how many more geese than ducks remain at the park? | gsm8k |
Cindy can run at 3 miles per hour and walk at 1 mile per hour. If she runs for half a mile and then walks for half a mile, how many minutes will it take her to travel the full mile? | gsm8k |
Micah has 7 fish in his aquarium. Kenneth has three times as many fish in his aquarium and Matthias has 15 less fish than Kenneth in his aquarium. How many fish do the boys have in total? | gsm8k |
Nina wants to buy a new video game with her allowance money. The game cost 50 dollars. Nina also has learned that there is a 10 percent sales tax. She receives 10 dollars a week as an allowance, and thinks she can save half of that. How many weeks will it take for Nina to be able to buy the new video game with her savings? | gsm8k |
Robby doesn't like the color brown and will not eat the brown M&M's. On his first bag, he sets aside 9 brown M&M's. On the second bag, he sets aside 12. On his third & fourth bag, there are 8 brown M&M's that he doesn't eat. On his fifth bag, there are only 3 brown M&M's that he doesn't eat. What's the average number of brown M&M's in a bag? | gsm8k |
Joseph has a refrigerator, a water heater in his house, and an electric oven that consumes power at different rates. The total amount of money that Joseph pays for the energy used by the refrigerator is three times the amount he pays for the power used by the water heater. If the electric oven uses power worth $500 in a month, twice what Joseph pays for the power the water heater uses, calculate the total amount he pays for the power used by these gadgets. | gsm8k |
There was a big sale on cat food at the pet store. 20 people bought cat food that day. The first 8 customers bought 3 cases each. The next four customers bought 2 cases each. The last 8 customers of the day only bought 1 case each. How many cases of cat food were sold? | gsm8k |
After violating the group's policies, 20 members of a Facebook group were removed by the group's admin. If each member posted 50 messages per day in the group and the number of members in the group was 150 before the admin removed some, calculate the total number of messages the remaining members would send in a week. | gsm8k |
James scored 13 field goals worth 3 points and 20 shots worth two points. How many total points did he score? | gsm8k |
Seth and Max were selling candy bars for a school fundraiser. Seth sold 6 more candy bars than 3 times the number of candy bars that Max sold. If Max sold 24 candy bars, how many did Seth sell? | gsm8k |
James is running a fundraiser selling candy bars. Each box has 10 candy bars in it. He sells 5 boxes. He sells each candy bar for $1.50 and buys each bar for $1. How much profit does he make from these sales? | gsm8k |
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? | gsm8k |
Brenda raises mice, and her adult mice recently had three litters of 8 each. She gave a sixth of the baby mice to her friend Robbie to keep as pets. She sold three times the number of babies she gave Robbie to a pet store. Half of the remaining mice were sold to snake owners as feeder mice. How many baby mice did Brenda have left? | gsm8k |
A carnival snack booth made $50 selling popcorn each day. It made three times as much selling cotton candy. For a 5-day activity, the booth has to pay $30 rent and $75 for the cost of the ingredients. How much did the booth earn for 5 days after paying the rent and the cost of ingredients? | gsm8k |
James decides to bulk up. He weighs 120 kg and gains 20% of his body weight in muscle and 1 quarter that much in fat. How much does he weigh now? | gsm8k |
There are 13 3-year-olds, 20 4-year-olds, 15 5-year-olds, and 22 six-year-olds at a particular Sunday school. If the 3 and 4-year-olds are in one class and the 5 and 6-year-olds are in another class, what is the average class size? | gsm8k |
Before Marcus went on a road trip to LA, his car had 1728 miles on it. He filled his empty gas tank twice and used up all the gas on the trip. If Marcus's car gets 30 miles per gallon and holds 20 gallons of gas, how many miles does Marcus' car have on it now? | gsm8k |
Pierre decides to bring his mother out for ice cream. His treat. Each scoop is $2. If he gets 3 scoops and his mom gets 4, what is the total bill? | gsm8k |
In a day, Sam hunts 6 animals. Rob hunts half as many animals as Sam. Mark hunts 1/3 of the total of what Rob and Sam hunt. If Peter hunts 3 times as many animals as Mark does, how many animals do they all hunt in a day? | gsm8k |
John and Sam were hungry so they ordered an extra-large pizza that was pre-sliced into 12 pieces. John ate 3 slices while Sam ate twice the amount that John ate. How many slices of pizza were left? | gsm8k |
Timmy plans to ride a skateboard ramp that is 50 feet high. He knows he needs to go 40 mph at the start to make it all the way to the top. He measures his speed on three trial runs and goes 36, 34, and 38 mph. How much faster does he have to go than his average speed to make it up the ramp? | gsm8k |
Tom takes medication to help him sleep. He takes 2 pills every day before bed. He needs to go to the doctor every 6 months to get a new prescription and a visit to the doctor costs $400. The medication costs $5 per pill, but insurance covers 80% of that cost. How much does he pay a year for everything? | gsm8k |
There were 349 pieces of candy in a bowl. Talitha took 108 pieces and Solomon took 153 pieces. How many pieces of candy remain in the bowl? | gsm8k |
Mabel lives 4500 steps directly east of Lake High school. Helen lives 3/4 the number of steps that Mabel lives, directly west of the school. What's the total number of steps Mabel will walk to visit Helen so that they can do their assignments together? | gsm8k |
Ronald wants to make profits by re-selling some phones he bought a week ago. He bought 200 units for just $3000, and he wants to gain a third of the initial investment in profits when all units are sold. Including the profit margin, what will be the selling price for each phone? | gsm8k |
Blake needs to prime and paint 5 rooms in his house. Each room will require a gallon of primer and a gallon of paint. Currently the primer is $30.00 a gallon and they are offering 20% off. The paint costs $25.00 a gallon and is not on sale. How much will he spend on paint and primer? | gsm8k |
Haruto has tomato plants in his backyard. This year the plants grew 127 tomatoes. Birds had eaten 19 of the tomatoes. He picked the rest. If Haruto gave half of his tomatoes to his friend, how many tomatoes does he have left? | gsm8k |
Tim buys 3 dozen eggs. Eggs cost $.50 each. How much did he pay for eggs? | gsm8k |
Nida has 50 chocolates in which some are in 3 filled boxes and 5 pieces are not in a box. Her friend brought 25 pieces of chocolates. If all chocolates must be placed in a box, how many more boxes do they need? | gsm8k |
The first tank is 300 liters filled while the second tank is 450 liters filled. The second tank is only 45% filled. If the two tanks have the same capacity, how many more liters of water are needed to fill the two tanks? | gsm8k |
To get free delivery, Alice needs to spend a minimum of $35.00 online at her favorite grocery store. In her cart she has 1.5 pounds of chicken at $6.00 per pound, 1 pack of lettuce for $3.00, cherry tomatoes for $2.50, 4 sweet potatoes at $0.75 each, 2 heads of broccoli for $2.00 each and a pound of Brussel sprouts for $2.50. How much more does she need to spend in order to get free delivery? | gsm8k |
Elsa started the day with 40 marbles. At breakfast, she lost 3 marbles while playing. At lunchtime, she gave her best friend Susie 5 marbles. In the afternoon, Elsa's mom bought her a new bag with 12 marbles. Susie came back and gave Elsa twice as many marbles as she received at lunch. How many marbles did Elsa end the day with? | gsm8k |
Casey wants to decorate her toenails and fingernails. First, she wants to do a base coat on each nail, then a coat of paint and finally a coat of glitter on every nail. It takes 20 minutes to apply each coat and 20 minutes for each coat to dry before applying the next one. Assuming Casey's nails will be done when all coats have been applied and dried, how many minutes will it take her to finish decorating her fingernails and toenails? | gsm8k |
Due to a drought, Jerry's household can only use 1000 gallons of water during July. Jerry uses 100 gallons for drinking and cooking and 20 gallons per shower. He wants to fill his pool, which measures 10 feet by 10 feet by 6 feet. If each gallon of water fills 1 cubic foot of the pool, how many showers can Jerry take in July? | gsm8k |
Joel is picking peppers from his garden. He picks 7 on Sunday, 12 on Monday, 14 on Tuesday, 12 on Wednesday, 5 on Thursday, 18 on Friday and 12 on Saturday. He knows that in his garden 20% of the peppers are hot and the rest are not. How many non-hot peppers did he pick? | gsm8k |
James made $4000 in January. The next month he made twice as much. In March, however, James made $2000 less than in February. How much has James made so far this year? | gsm8k |
John decides to get a new apartment with a roommate. His former rent was $2 per square foot for a 750 square foot apartment. His new apartment cost $2800 per month, which he splits evenly with the roommate. How much money does he save a year? | gsm8k |
Fern buys one pair of high heels for $60 and five pairs of ballet slippers for 2/3rds of the price of the high heels. How much does she pay total? | gsm8k |
Lauryn owns a computer company that employs men and women in different positions in the company. How many men does he employ if there are 20 fewer men than women and 180 people working for Lauryn? | gsm8k |
Elois needs 4 bananas to make 1 loaf of banana bread. On Monday, she makes 3 loaves of banana bread. On Tuesday, she makes twice as many loaves of banana bread as Monday. How many bananas did she use to make all the banana bread? | gsm8k |
Dorothy is 15 years old and wants to go to a museum with her family. Her family consists of her, her younger brother, her parents, and her grandfather. The regular ticket cost is $10. People 18 years old or younger have a discount of 30%. How much money will Dorothy have after this trip, when she currently has $70? | gsm8k |
Sara builds a birdhouse that is 1 foot wide, 2 feet tall and 2 feet deep. Jake builds a birdhouse that is 16 inches wide, 20 inches tall and 18 inches deep. What is the difference in volume between the two birdhouses? | gsm8k |
85 paper stars are required to fill a glass jar. Luke has already made 33 stars, but he needs to fill 4 bottles. How many more stars must Luke make? | gsm8k |
For a fundraiser, Nellie needs to sell 45 rolls of gift wrap. So far, she has sold 1 roll to her grandmother, 10 rolls to her uncle, and 6 rolls to a neighbor. How many more rolls of gift wrap does Nellie need to sell? | gsm8k |
The capacity of Karson's home library is 400 books. If he currently has 120 books, how many more books does he have to buy to make his library 90% full? | gsm8k |
Benny is baking pies for a bake sale. He plans to make ten pumpkin pies, which cost $3 each to make, and twelve cherry pies, which cost $5 each to make. If he wants to make a profit of $20 selling all the pies, how much does he have to charge for each pie if both kinds sell at the same price? | gsm8k |
Hanna has $300. She wants to buy roses at $2 each and give some of the roses to her friends, Jenna and Imma. Jenna will receive 1/3 of the roses, and Imma will receive 1/2 of the roses. How many roses does Hanna give to her friends? | gsm8k |
Amiyah is cutting some trees to build a cow shade. For every tree she cuts, she plants 5 new trees. If there were 400 trees on her farm and she cut 20% of them, calculate the total number of trees on the farm. | gsm8k |
Paul, a biology teacher, assigns 265 points in the first quarter. There are 4 times as many test points as quiz points, and 5 more quiz points than homework points. How many homework points are there in the first quarter? | gsm8k |
Andrea buys herself a pony for her 30th birthday. She pays $500/month to rent a pasture for it, $10 a day for food, and $60/lesson for two lessons a week. How much does she spend on her pony in a year? | gsm8k |
John wants to finish a show in 5 days. There are 20 episodes and they are each 30 minutes long. How many hours does he have to watch a day? | gsm8k |
James decides to cut down some trees. In the first 2 days, he cuts down 20 trees each day. For the next 3 days his 2 brothers help him cut down trees. They cut 20% fewer trees per day than James. How many total trees were cut down? | gsm8k |