Laura is planning her wedding. She expects 220 people to attend the wedding, but she has been told that approximately 5% typically don't show. How many people will go to her wedding?

Laura expects 100 - 5 =

<<100-5=95>>95% to show up. Laura expects 220 * 0.95 = <<220*0.95=209>>209 guests. #### 209 A roadwork company is paving a newly constructed 16-mile road. They use a mixture of pitch and gravel to make the asphalt to pave the road. Each truckloads of asphalt uses two bags of gravel and five times as many bags of gravel as it does barrels of pitch to make. It takes three truckloads of asphalt to pave each mile of road. The company paved 4 miles of road on one day, then one mile less than double that on the second day. How many barrels of pitch will the company need to finish the remaining road on the third day? On the second day, the company paved 4 * 2 - 1 = <<4*2-1=7>>7 miles. The company has 16 - 7 - 4 = <<16-7-4=5>>5 miles of road remaining to pave. They will need 3 * 5 = <<3*5=15>>15 truckloads of asphalt to pave 5 miles of road. For 15 truckloads, they will need 15 * 2 = <<15*2=30>>30 bags of gravel. Thus, the company will need 30 / 5 = <<30/5=6>>6 barrels of pitch to finish the road on the third day. #### 6 Dorothy earns $60000 a year from her work. She needs to pay 18% of this amount in taxes. How much money will she have left after she pays the taxes? The amount in taxes Dorothy needs to pay is 18/100 * 60000 = $<<18/100*60000=10800>>10800. So she is going to be left with 60000 - 10800 = $<<60000-10800=49200>>49200. #### 49200 Kantana loves chocolate. Every Saturday she goes to the candy store and buys 2 chocolates for herself and 1 for her sister. This last Saturday she picked up an additional 10 chocolates as a birthday gift for her friend Charlie. How many chocolates did Kantana end up buying for the month? There is 1 Saturday in a week and there are 4 weeks in a month so there are 1 * 4= <<1*4=4>>4 Saturdays in a month (on average) If Kantana buys herself 2 chocolates every Saturday then this means she buys 2 * 4=<<2*4=8>>8 chocolates for herself for the month. Kantana also buys her sister 1 chocolate on these trips so she is picking up an additional 1* 4=<<1*4=4>>4 additional chocolates for her sister for the month. Kantana decided to also purchase some chocolates for her friend Charlie for his birthday. She bought Charlie 10 chocolates. This means that for the month she bought 10 chocolates for Charlie, 4 chocolates for her sister, and 8 chocolates for herself, 10+4+8= <<10+4+8=22>>22 chocolates bought in total for the month. #### 22 Martha needs 4 cups of berries and 2 cups of heavy cream to make 1 quart of ice cream. She wants to make 1 quart of strawberry ice cream and 1 quart of raspberry ice cream. At the farmers market, the 2 cup packages of strawberries are $3.00 each and the 2 cup package of raspberries are $5.00 each. The heavy cream is sold for $4.00 for a 4 cup container. How much will it cost her to make 1 quart of each ice cream? She needs 4 cups of strawberries per quart of ice cream and the strawberries are sold in 2 cup packages. So 4/2 = <<4/2=2>>2 packages of strawberries The strawberries cost $3.00 per package and she needs 2 so 3*2=$<<3*2=6.00>>6.00 She needs 4 cups of raspberries per quart of ice cream and the raspberries are sold in 2 cup packages. So 4/2 = <<4/2=2>>2 packages of raspberries The raspberries cost $5.00 per package and she needs 2 so 5*2 = $<<5*2=10.00>>10.00 Every quart needs 2 cups of heavy cream and she's making 2 quarts so 2*2 = <<2*2=4>>4 quarts She will spend $6.00 on strawberries, $10.00 on raspberries and $4.00 on heavy cream bringing the total to 6+10+4 = $<<6+10+4=20.00>>20.00 #### 20 Eve wants to buy her 3 nieces cooking gear that's made for kids. The hand mitts cost $14.00 and the apron is $16.00. A set of 3 cooking utensils is $10.00 and a small knife is twice the amount of the utensils. The store is offering a 25% off sale on all cooking gear. How much will Eve spend on the gifts? A small knife is twice the amount of the utensils that costs $10.00 so the knife costs 2*10 = $<<2*10=20.00>>20.00 All total, each little kit will costs $14.00 for mitts, $16.00 for an apron, $10.00 for utensils and $20.00 for a knife for a total of 14+16+10+20 = $<<14+16+10+20=60.00>>60.00 Each kit costs $60.00 and they are currently 25% off so that's a savings of 60*.25 = $<<60*.25=15.00>>15.00 The kits are $60.00 and they are $15.00 off so they now cost 60-15 = $<<60-15=45.00>>45.00 She needs to buy 3 kits and each kit costs $45.00 so that's 3*45 = $<<3*45=135.00>>135.00 #### 135 Alex has 2 cakes that are each cut into 8 slices. A fourth of the slices are given away to his friends. A third of the remaining slices are given away to his family. Alex eats 3 slices. How many slices of the cake are left? There are 2*8 = <<2*8=16>>16 slices of cake. There are 16/4 = <<16/4=4>>4 slices There are 16-4 = <<16-4=12>>12 slices left. There are 12/3 = <<12/3=4>>4 slices given away There are 12-4-3 = <<12-4-3=5>>5 slices of cake left. #### 5 At a gathering, it was reported that 26 people took wine, 22 people took soda, and 17 people took both drinks. If each person could have taken one or more drinks regardless of what was reported, how many people altogether were at the gathering? The number of people who took only wine is the difference between the number of people who took wine and those who took wine and soda which is 26 -17 = <<26-17=9>>9 people In the same manner, the number of people who took only soda is 22-17 = <<22-17=5>>5 people Therefore the total number present is the sum of those who took wine only, those who took soda only and those who took both which is 9+5+17 = <<9+5+17=31>>31 people #### 31 Bobby needed to make some trips with his truck and had only 12 gallons of gasoline. He drives to a supermarket 5 miles away and then drives back home. Then he headed to his farm which was 6 miles away. Two miles into the journey, he turned around and drove back home to retrieve some farming tools he forgot to take earlier and drove down to the farm. If he now has exactly 2 gallons of gasoline left, at what rate in miles per gallon has his truck been consuming gasoline? The trip to the supermarket and back home covers 5+5=<<5+5=10>>10 miles. The round trip of two miles each before he actually went to the farm covers 2+2=<<2+2=4>>4 miles. Six miles to the farm and the total mileage is 10+4+6=<<10+4+6=20>>20 miles. The truck consumed 12-2=<<12-2=10>>10 gallons of gasoline for the total journey. So, the rate is 20/10= <<20/10=2>>2 miles per gallon. #### 2 Terez has 44 cows on his farm. 50 percent of the cows are female, and 50 percent of the females are pregnant. How many pregnant female cows does Terez have? Female:44(.50)=22 Pregnant:22(.50)=11 cows #### 11