John attends a protest for 4 days. He then attends a second protest for 25% longer than the first. How many days did he spend protesting?

The second protest was 4*.25=

<<4*.25=1>>1 day longer than the first. So the second protest was 4+1=<<4+1=5>>5 days. Thus he spent 4+5=<<4+5=9>>9 days protesting. #### 9 Mary wants to bake 10 apple pies for a charity event. Each pie needs 8 apples and she already harvested 50 apples from the trees in her garden. How many more apples does she need to buy to make all 10 pies? She needs 10*8=<<10*8=80>>80 apples to make the pies So she has to buy 80-50=<<80-50=30>>30 more apples #### 30 Jane had a 500 page book to read. The first half of the book Jane read with a speed of 10 pages per day, and the second half with a speed of 5 pages a day. How many days did Jane spend reading this book? Half of the book means 500 / 2 = <<500/2=250>>250 pages. Reading the first half took Jane 250 / 10 = <<250/10=25>>25 days. Reading the second half of the book took Jane 250 / 5 = <<250/5=50>>50 days. So in total Jane needed 25 + 50 = <<25+50=75>>75 days to read the whole book. #### 75 Adam has an orchard. Every day for 30 days he picks 4 apples from his orchard. After a month, Adam has collected all the remaining apples, which were 230. How many apples in total has Adam collected from his orchard? During 30 days Adam picked 4 * 30 = <<4*30=120>>120 apples. So in total with all the remaining apples, he picked 120 + 230 = <<120+230=350>>350 apples from his orchard. #### 350 A new book sold 15 copies at the bookstore on Wednesday. On Thursday the book sold three times that many copies. On Friday the book sold one-fifth the number of copies it did on Thursday. How many copies of the book did the bookstore sell by Friday? On Thursday 15*3=<<15*3=45>>45 books were sold. On Friday 45/5=<<45/5=9>>9 books were sold Adding up all three days 15+45+9=<<15+45+9=69>>69 books were sold by Friday #### 69 Sarah makes 5 times more money per hour than Connor does. If Connor earns $7.20 per hour, how much does Sarah make in an 8-hour day? Sarah makes $7.2 * 5 = $<<7.2*5=36>>36 per hour Sarah makes $36 * 8 = $<<36*8=288>>288 per day. #### 288 Randy walks his dog twice a day. After each walk, he wipes his dog's paws off with a baby wipe. The baby wipes come 120 wipes per pack. How many packs will he need to make sure he has enough wipes for 360 days? He uses 2 wipes a day and the pack of baby wipes come 120 wipes per pack so they will last 120/2 = 60 days He needs enough to last for 360 days and 1 pack will last 60 days so he needs 360/60 = <<360/60=6>>6 packs #### 6 Jack, who weighs 60 pounds, wants to play on the see-saw with his cousin Anna, who weighs 40 pounds. How many 4-pound rocks does Jack need to hold to make their weights equal? First find the total difference in weight between the two people: 60 pounds - 40 pounds = <<60-40=20>>20 pounds Then divide the weight difference by the weight of each rock to find the number of rocks need to even the weights: 20 pounds / 4 pound/rock = <<20/4=5>>5 rocks #### 5 In a basketball game, Tobee scored 4 points. Jay scored 6 more than Tobee and Sean scored 2 less than the points of Tobee and Jay together. If Tobee, Jay, and Sean are on the same team, how many points did they score for their team? Jay scored 4 + 6 = <<4+6=10>>10 points. Together, Tobee and Jay scores 4 + 10 = <<4+10=14>>14 points. So, Sean scored 14 - 2 = <<14-2=12>>12 points. Thus, Tobee, Jay, and Sean scored a total of 4 + 10 + 12 = <<4+10+12=26>>26 points for their team. #### 26 In the jar, there are 7 blue marbles, 11 red marbles, and some yellow marbles. If the chance of randomly picking a yellow marble is 1/4, how many yellow marbles are there? Let y be the number of yellow marbles There are 11+7+y=18+y total marbles. y/(18+y)=1/4. 4y=18+y 3y=18 y=6 There are 6 yellow marbles. #### 6