[Question]Jorge is 24 years younger than Simon. In 2005, Jorge is 16 years old. In 2010, how old would Simon be?
[Answer]In 2005, Simon was 16 + 24 = 40 years old. There are 2010 - 2005 = 5 years between 2005 and 2010. In 2010 Simon would be 40 + 5 = 45 years old. The answer is 45.
Q: Mark and his sister Chris both leave their house for school at the same time. Mark travels at the same speed as Chris, who walks 3 miles per hour. After walking 3 miles Mark has to turn around and go home because he forgot his lunch. If the distance from their house to the school is 9 miles, how much longer does Mark spend walking than Chris?
A: First find the total number of miles Mark walks to get his lunch by multiplying the distance he walks back to the house by 2: 3 miles * 2 = 6 miles. Then find the total distance Mark walks by adding that distance to the distance between the house and the school: 6 miles + 9 miles = 15 miles. Now divide the total distance Mark walks by his speed to find how many hours he spends walking: 15 miles / 3 miles / hour = 5 hours. Now divide the total distance Chris walks by her speed to find the total time she spends walking: 9 miles / 3 miles / hour = 3 hours. Now subtract the time Chris spends walking from the time Mark spends walking to find the difference: 5 hours - 3 hours = 2. The answer is 2.
Question: Marcy keeps a 2-liter bottle of water by her desk. She takes a sip every five minutes, and each sip is 40 ml. How many minutes does it take her to drink the whole bottle of water?
Answer: First find the total number of milliliters in the bottle: 2 liters * 1000 ml / liter = 2000 ml. Then divide the total number of milliliters by the amount she drinks per sip: 2000 ml / 40 ml = 50 sips. Then multiply the number of sips by the time per sip to find the time it takes her to drink the bottle: 50 sips * 5 minutes / sip = 250 minutes. The answer is 250.
[Question]Colleen is making a batch of 48 cookies. She's going to add 108 chocolate chips and one-third as many M&Ms to the whole batch. What are the average number of chocolate pieces in each cookie?
[Answer]First find the total number of M&Ms: 108 chocolate chips / 3 chocolate chips / 1 M&M = 36 M&Ms. Then add that number to the number of chocolate chips to find the total number of pieces of chocolate: 36 M&Ms + 108 chocolate chips = 144 chocolates. Then divide the total number of chocolates by the number of cookies to find the number of pieces of chocolate per cookie: 144 chocolates / 48 cookies = 3 chocolates / cookie. The answer is 3.
Q: Steph needs to cook fried chicken for the kid's party. She bought 24 pieces of drumstick and 4 fewer breast parts. How many fried chickens can Steph make?
A: Steph bought 24 - 4 = 20 breast parts. Thus, she can make 24 + 20 = 44 fried chickens. The answer is 44.
Question: 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?
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After painting the red and blue pebbles, Shawn had a remainder of 40 - 9 - 13 = 18 pebbles. He painted 18 / 3 = 6 pebbles yellow. The difference between the number of blue and yellow pebbles is 13 - 6 = 7. The answer is 7.