There are 360 balls in the ball pit. If a quarter of the balls in the ball pit are red and a fifth of the remaining balls are blue. How many of the balls are neither red nor blue?
Let's think: A quarter of the balls are red and therefore there are 360 x (1 / 4) = 90 red balls. When you remove the red balls from the ball pit there are 360 - 90 = 270 remaining balls. A fifth of the remaining balls are blue, and therefore there are 270 x (1 / 5) = 54 blue balls. The total of red and blue balls equals 90 + 54 = 144 balls. When you remove the red and blue balls from the total there are 360 - 144 = 216 balls that are neither red nor blue.. The answer is: 216.

Maggie has an after-school job that pays her $5.00 for every magazine subscription she can sell. She sells 4 to her parents, 1 to her grandfather, 2 to the next-door neighbor and twice that amount to another neighbor. How much money did Maggie earn?
Let's think: Maggie sells 2 subscriptions to a neighbor and twice that amount to another neighbor so she sells 2 * 2 = 4 subscriptions to the other neighbor. In total, Maggie sells 4 + 1 + 2 + 4 = 11 subscriptions. She earns $5.00 per subscription she sells so she earns 5 * 11 = $55.00.. The answer is: 55.

Maurice had only been horseback riding a handful of times in his life. His best friend, Matt, goes horseback riding regularly. When Maurice went to visit Matt for two weeks, he rode another 8 times. Each time, Matt went with him. Meanwhile, besides the times that Matt accompanied Maurice, he rode an additional 16 times. If the total number of times Matt rode during that two weeks is three times the number of times Maurice had ridden before his visit, how many times had Maurice been horseback riding before visiting Matt?
Let's think: During the two weeks, Matt rode a total of 16 times + 8 times = 24 times. Before his visit, Maurice had ridden 24 times / 3 = 8 times.. The answer is: 8.

Hugo's mountain has an elevation of 10,000 feet above sea level. Boris' mountain has an elevation that is 2,500 feet shorter than Hugo's mountain. If Hugo climbed his mountain 3 times, how many times would Boris need to climb his mountain to have climbed the same number of feet as Hugo?
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Boris' mountain has an elevation 2,500 feet shorter than Hugo's mountain, or 10,000 - 2,500 = 7500 feet above sea level. If Hugo climbed his mountain 3 times, his total climbing distance would be 3 * 10,000 = 30,000 feet. To climb a total of 30,000 feet, Boris would need to need to climb his mountain 30,000 / 7,500 = 4 times.. The answer is: 4.