[Question]Mary does her grocery shopping on Saturday. She does her shopping only at a specific store where she is allowed a credit of $100, which must be paid in full before her next shopping trip. That week she spent the full credit limit and paid $15 of it on Tuesday and $23 of it on Thursday. How much credit will Mary need to pay before her next shopping trip?
[Answer]So far, Mary has paid back $15 + $23 = $38 of the credit. So she still needs to pay $100 - $38 = $62. The answer is 62.
Q: In a certain company, for every customer served, an employee gets as many bonus points, as 20% of the number of customers served. On Monday, Tom served 10 customers per hour for 8 hours. How many bonus points did Tom earn that day?
A: Tom served on Monday to 8 * 10 = 80 clients. So Tom earned 20 / 100 * 80 = 16 bonus points. The answer is 16.
Question: John builds a model rocket that can travel 500 ft in the air. He builds a second rocket that can travel twice as high. What is the combined height of the two rockets?
Answer: The second rocket goes 500 * 2 = 1000 feet. So the total height is 500 + 1000 = 1500 feet. The answer is 1500.
[Question]When the strawberries at Fruity Farm are ready for harvest, Miguel charges each interested picker $4 to access the strawberry fields. Once there, people pick as many strawberries as they wish, and then take them to Miguel for weighing and pricing. This year, the standard price of a pound of strawberries is $20. Miguel is a very generous man. He deducts the entrance charge from the cost of the harvest. Sally, Jenny and Moses have just finished their strawberry picking and are headed home. They paid $128 for their harvest. How many pounds of strawberry did they pick?
[Answer]To gain entry into the strawberry fields, Sally, Jenny and Moses paid a total of 4 * 3 = 12 dollars. This means that before Miguel applied the $12 discount, the cost was 128 + 12 = 140 dollars. We get the weight by dividing the cost by the price of strawberries per pound, 140 / 20 = 7 pounds. The answer is 7.
Q: Susy goes to a large school with 800 students, while Sarah goes to a smaller school with only 300 students. At the start of the school year, Susy had 100 social media followers. She gained 40 new followers in the first week of the school year, half that in the second week, and half of that in the third week. Sarah only had 50 social media followers at the start of the year, but she gained 90 new followers the first week, a third of that in the second week, and a third of that in the third week. After three weeks, how many social media followers did the girl with the most total followers have?
A: After one week, Susy has 100 + 40 = 140 followers. In the second week, Susy gains 40 / 2 = 20 new followers. In the third week, Susy gains 20 / 2 = 10 new followers. In total, Susy finishes the three weeks with 140 + 20 + 10 = 170 total followers. After one week, Sarah has 50 + 90 = 140 followers. After the second week, Sarah gains 90 / 3 = 30 followers. After the third week, Sarah gains 30 / 3 = 10 followers. So, Sarah finishes the three weeks with 140 + 30 + 10 = 180 total followers. Thus, Sarah is the girl with the most total followers with a total of 180. The answer is 180.
Question: A TV show costs $100,000 per episode for the first season and twice that much for every other season. The first season had 12 episodes, and every season after that had 50% more episodes except the last season, which had 24 episodes. The show had 5 seasons. How much did it cost to produce all the episodes?
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The first season cost 12 * 100,000 = $1,200,000. Season 2 - 4 had 12 * .5 = 6 more episodes per season than the first. So they each had 12 + 6 = 18 episodes. That means there were 18 * 3 + 24 = 78 episodes in the last 4 seasons. So those episodes cost 2 * 100,000 = $200,000. For a total cost of 200,000 * 78 = $15,600,000. So the total cost was 15,600,000 + 1,200,000 = $16,800,000. The answer is 16800000.