[Question]In a hotdog eating competition, the first competitor can eat 10 hot dogs per minute. The second competitor can eat 3 times more than the first competitor, while the third competitor can eat twice as much as the second competitor. How many hotdogs can the third competitor eat after 5 minutes?
[Answer]The second competitor can eat 10 x 3 = 30 hotdogs per minute. The third competitor can eat 30 x 2 = 60 hot dogs per minute. Therefore, the third competitor can eat 60 x 5 = 300 hot dogs after 5 minutes. The answer is 300.
Q: Joshua packs 12 bottles in each crate. He has a total of 130 bottles and 10 crates. How many bottles will not be placed in a crate?
A: A total of 12 x 10 = 120 bottles will be placed in 10 crates. Therefore, 130 - 120 = 10 bottles will not be placed in a crate. The answer is 10.
Question: John is an eccentric millionaire. He decides to fill his swimming pool with bottled water. A cubic foot of water is 25 liters. His pool is 10 feet deep and 6 feet by 20 feet. A liter of water costs $3. How much does it cost to fill the pool?
Answer: The pool is 10 * 6 * 20 = 1200 cubic feet. That means it is 25 * 1200 = 30000 liters. So it cost 3 * 30,000 = $90,000. The answer is 90000.
[Question]Samir climbed 318 stairs yesterday. Veronica climbed 18 more than half that amount. How many stairs did Veronica and Samir climb together yesterday?
[Answer]Half of 318 is 159. 159 + 18 = 177 stairs. 318 + 177 = 495. Together they climbed 495 stairs yesterday. The answer is 495.
Q: Mark has a really bad headache. He takes 2 Tylenol tablets of 500 mg each and he does every 4 hours for 12 hours. How many grams of Tylenol does he end up taking?
A: He takes 12 / 4 = 3 doses. Each dose is 500 * 2 = 1000 mg. So he takes 3 * 1000 = 3000 mg. So he takes 3000 / 1000 = 3 grams of Tylenol. The answer is 3.
Question: Mark is filling a punch bowl that can hold 16 gallons of punch. He fills it part way, then his cousin comes along and drinks half the punch in the bowl. Mark starts to refill the bowl and adds 4 more gallons, but then his friend Sally comes in and drinks 2 more gallons of punch. After that, Mark has to add 12 gallons of punch to completely fill the bowl. How much punch did Mark initially add to the bowl?
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First, figure out how much punch was left in the bowl before Mark refilled it by subtracting the 12 gallons he added from the bowl's total capacity: 16 - 12 = 4 gallons. Next, figure out how much punch was in the bowl before Sally came along: 4 + 2 = 6 gallons. Next, figure out how much punch was in the bowl before Mark started to refill it: 6 - 4 = 2 gallons. Finally, multiply that amount by 2 to find out how much punch there was before the cousin drank half: 2 * 2 = 4 gallons. The answer is 4.