When Michelle makes fresh pasta, she first makes the dough, then she rolls it out and cuts it, and then she hangs it on racks to dry for cooking later. She needs a drying rack for each three pounds of pasta she makes, and it takes two cups of flour to make each pound of pasta dough. She owns three racks right now. How many more drying racks will Michelle need if she makes pasta using three 8-cup bags of flour?

Michelle used 3 * 8 =

<<3*8=24>>24 cups of flour in the pasta dough. She made 24 / 2 = <<24/2=12>>12 pounds of pasta dough. She needs 12 / 3 = <<12/3=4>>4 drying racks for the pasta. Thus, Michelle needs 4 - 3 = <<4-3=1>>1 more drying rack. #### 1 At a cafe, the breakfast plate has two eggs and twice as many bacon strips as eggs. If 14 customers order breakfast plates, how many bacon strips does the cook need to fry? Each breakfast plate has 2 x 2 = <<2*2=4>>4 bacon strips. The cook needs to fry 14 x 4 = <<14*4=56>>56 bacon strips. #### 56 Jose needs 12 tablespoons of lemon juice to make a dozen of his lemon cupcakes. Every lemon provides 4 tablespoons of lemon juice. If he needs to make 3 dozen cupcakes, how many lemons will he need? He needs 12 tablespoons of lemon juice for every dozen of cupcakes and he’s making 3 dozen cupcakes so he needs 12*3 = <<12*3=36>>36 tablespoons of lemon juice 1 lemon provides 4 tablespoons of lemon juice and he needs 36 tablespoons so he will need 36/4 = <<36/4=9>>9 lemons #### 9 There were 60 women at the party, and three-fourths of these women were married and brought their husbands with them to the party. If 3/4 of the men at the party were single, how many people attended the party? 60 x 3/4 = <<60*3/4=45>>45 females are married which means there are also 45 married males. If 1/4 of the men are married, which represents 45 men, then 4*45=<<4*45=180>>180 is the total number of men who attended the party. Thus, there are a total of 60 women and 180 men, or a total of 60+180=<<60+180=240>>240 people at the party. #### 240 A kilogram of pork costs $6 while a kilogram of chicken costs $2 less. How much will a 3-kilogram of chicken and a kilogram of pork cost? A kilogram of chicken costs $6 - $2 = $<<6-2=4>>4. Three kilograms of chicken cost $4 x 3 = $<<4*3=12>>12. So, a 3-kilogram of chicken and a kilogram of pork cost $12 + $6 = $18. #### 18 Last week, the price of a movie ticket was $100. This year the price is down by 20%. What's the new price of the movie ticket? The price of the book is down by: 100*0.2 = $<<100*0.2=20>>20. So the new price of the movie ticket is: 100 - 20 = $<<100-20=80>>80. #### 80 Ali keeps his bills in his wallet. He has 7 bills of 5 dollars and 1 bill of 10 dollars. How much money does he have in total? Ali has 7 * $5 = $<<7*5=35>>35 from the seven 5-dollar bills. So in total, he has $35 + $10 = $<<35+10=45>>45. #### 45 Grace is filling her pool in the backyard with a hose that sprays 50 gallons/hour. She waited for 3 hours but the pool wasn't full, so she decides to add another hose that sprays 70 gallons/hour, and after 2 more hours the pool is full. How much water can Grace’s pool contain? In the first 3 hours the pool gets 50 gallons/hour x 3 hours = <<50*3=150>>150 gallons With the addition of the other hose, the pool was filling with a rate of 50 gallons/hour + 70 gallons/hour = <<50+70=120>>120 gallons/hour In the next 2 hours with both hoses the pool gets 120 gallons/hour x 2 hours = <<120*2=240>>240 gallons The pool's total capacity is 240 gallons + 150 gallons = <<240+150=390>>390 gallons #### 390 TreShawn's mom needs to order pizza for her son and his two friends. She knows that TreShawn always eats 1/2 a pizza. His friend Michael eats 1/3 of a pizza and his other friend LaMar eats 1/6 of a pizza. How many pizzas does she need to order? Half a pizza is the same as 3/6 of a pizza 1/3 of a pizza is the same as 2/6 of a pizza 3/6 of a pizza plus 2/6 of a pizza plus 1/6 of a pizza equals 6/6 of a pizza. Therefore, she needs to buy one pizza because 6/6 equals 1 #### 1 The zoo has 50 new visitors entering the zoo every hour. The zoo is open for 8 hours in one day. If 80% of the total visitors go to the gorilla exhibit, how many visitors go to the gorilla exhibit in one day? The zoo has 50 * 8 = <<50*8=400>>400 visitors in one day The number of visitors that go to the gorilla exhibit in one day is 400 * 0.80 = <<400*0.80=320>>320 visitors #### 320