Question: Lola and Tara decide to race to the top of a 20 story building. Tara takes the elevator and Lola runs up the stairs. Lola can run up 1 story in 10 seconds. The elevator goes up a story in 8 seconds but stops for 3 seconds on every single floor. How long would it take for the slower one of Lola and Tara to reach the top floor?
Answer with step-by-step thinking: Lola climbs 20 stories in 20 stories x 10 seconds / story = 200 seconds. Tara can go up the elevator in 8 seconds / story x 20 stories = 160 seconds without the stops at each floor. The elevator stops for 3 seconds on each floor for a total of 20 stories x 3 seconds / story = 60 seconds. In total it takes Tara 160 seconds + 60 seconds = 220 seconds to reach the top floor. Because 200 < 220 Lola wins.
So the answer is 220.


Question: Aaron is gathering can lids to take to the recycling center. He uses 3 equal-sized boxes of canned tomatoes and adds the lids he gets to the 14 can lids he already has. He is now taking 53 can lids to the recycling center. How many cans lids did he get from each box?
Answer with step-by-step thinking: Calculating the difference between the can lids Aaron has now and the amount that he had initially shows there were 53 – 14 = 39 can lids in the boxes of canned tomatoes. As the boxes are the same size, splitting these can lids equally shows that there were 39 / 3 = 13 can lids in each box.
So the answer is 13.


Question: Travis has 10000 apples, and he is planning to sell these apples in boxes. Fifty apples can fit in each box. If he sells each box of apples for $35, how much will he be able to take home?
Answer with step-by-step thinking:

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The total of boxes of apples is 10000 / 50 = 200. Therefore the total amount he can take home is 200 x $35 = $7000.
So the answer is 7000.