[Question]Buying a toaster requires an insurance plan that is 20% of the MSRP, plus a mandatory state tax rate of 50% after the insurance plan calculation. Jon chooses to buy a toaster that costs $30 at MSRP. What is the total he must pay?
[Answer]The insurance plan costs $30 * 0.2 = $6. The pre - state tax total is $30 + $6 = $36. State tax will be $36 * 0.5 = $18. Jon needs to pay $18 + $36 = $54 for his new toaster. The answer is 54.
Q: Coleen loved sprinkles. At the beginning of the day, she had twelve cans of sprinkles. After applying sprinkles to her hair, her clothing and her pets, she had 3 less than half as many cans of sprinkles as she started out with. How many cans of sprinkles remained?
A: Half of twelve cans of sprinkles is 12 / 2 = 6 cans. Three less than half as many cans of sprinkles is 6 - 3 = 3 cans of sprinkles. The answer is 3.
Question: Marcus spends 20 minutes giving his dog a bath and half as long blow-drying her. Then he takes her for a walk along a 3-mile trail. If Marcus walks at 6 miles per hour, how much time does he spend with his dog total?
Answer: First find the total amount of time Marcus spends blow - drying his dog: 20 minutes / 2 = 10 minutes. Then find the time Marcus spends walking: 3 miles / 6 miles / hour = .5 hours. Then convert that time to minutes: .5 hours * 60 minutes / hour = 30 minutes. Then add up the time Marcus spends washing, drying and walking to find the total time: 10 minutes + 20 minutes + 30 minutes = 60 minutes. The answer is 60.
[Question]Tina is getting $20 for each book she sells. If she realizes a $120 profit on her sales, how many people have she sold the books to if each book costs $5 to make and every customer buys 2 at a time?
[Answer]First, we need to determine the profit per book. To do this, we perform 20 - 5 = 15 dollars in profit per book. Next, we divide the total sales by the profit per book, performing 120 / 15 = 8 books sold in total. Since the books are sold 2 at a time, we divide the number sold by 2 to find the total number of people sold to, performing 8 / 2 = 4 people in total. The answer is 4.
Q: When Betty makes cheesecake, she sweetens it with a ratio of one part sugar to four parts cream cheese, and she flavors it with one teaspoon of vanilla for every two cups of cream cheese. For every one teaspoon of vanilla, she uses two eggs. She used two cups of sugar in her latest cheesecake. How many eggs did she use?
A: Betty used 2 cups of sugar in her cheesecake, so she used 2 * 1 = 2 times her ratio. Thus, she used 2 * 4 = 8 cups of cream cheese. She uses 1 teaspoon of vanilla for 2 cups of cream cheese, so she used 8 / 2 = 4 teaspoons of vanilla. For each teaspoon of vanilla, she uses 2 eggs, so she used 2 * 4 = 8 eggs. The answer is 8.
Question: Jessica was half her mother's age when her mother died. If her mother were alive now, ten years later, she would have been 70. How old is Jessica currently?
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If Jessica's mother would be alive today, ten years later after her death, she would be 70, meaning she died at 70 - 10 = 60. If Jessica was half her mother's age when her mother died, she was 1 / 2 * 60 = 30 years old. Currently, ten years later, Jessica is 10 + 30 = 40 years old. The answer is 40.