A bag full of sugar weighs 16 kg. A bag full of salt weighs 30 kg. If you remove 4 kg from the combined weight of these two bags, how much do the bags now weigh?

The bags together weigh 16 + 30 =

<<16+30=46>>46 kg. Removing the 4 kg, the bags will weigh 46 - 4 = <<46-4=42>>42 kg. #### 42 A store has an 8% discount on all items. If Shara paid $184 for a pair of shoes, how much did Shara save? The price that Shara paid is only 100% - 8% = 92% of the original price. So, every 1% is equal to $184/92 = $2. Therefore, Shara saved $2 x 8 = $<<2*8=16>>16. #### 16 Eduardo is a teacher. He taught 3 classes last week while his colleague Frankie taught double what Eduardo teaches. How many classes did Eduardo and Frankie teach in total? Frankie taught 3 * 2 = <<3*2=6>>6 classes. Combined, Frankie and Eduardo taught 3 + 6 = <<3+6=9>>9 classes. #### 9 Cary is 72 inches tall. Her younger brother Bill is half her height, and her younger sister Jan is 6 inches taller than Bill. How tall is Jan? First find Bill's height by dividing Cary's height by 2: 72 inches / 2 = <<72/2=36>>36 inches Then add six inches to find Jan's height: 36 inches + 6 inches = <<36+6=42>>42 inches #### 42 A family is going to the amusement park. The adult tickets cost $22 for admission, and the tickets for children cost $7. The family consists of 2 adults and 2 children. What is the total price the family will pay for admission? To solve this problem you can set up an equation to represent the total price the family will pay, with a representing the number of adult tickets, c representing the number of children’s tickets, and p representing the total price of admission. Thus 22a + 7c = p Plug in the number of adults and children that plan to go to the amusement park: 22(2) + 7(2) = $<<22*2+7*2=58>>58 is the total cost for admission #### 58 There are 60 pieces of chips in Lara's bag. One-sixth of the chips are blue. There are 34 red chips and the rest are green. How many green chips are in Lara's bag? There are 60 x 1/6 = <<60*1/6=10>>10 blue chips. There are 10 + 34 = <<10+34=44>>44 chips that are not green. Thus, 60 - 44 = <<60-44=16>>16 chips are green. #### 16 Beth went shopping. She bought 15 more cans of peas than twice the number of cans of corn that she bought. If she bought 35 cans of peas, how many cans of corn did she buy? Let the number of cans of corn she bought be a Twice the number of corn cans is 2*a = 2a The 35 cans of peas were 15 more than twice the number of corn cans which means 15+2a = 35 Solving the equation: 2a = 20 a = 20/2 = <<20/2=10>>10 cans of corn #### 10 Ali, Nada, and John have a total of $67 in their wallets. Ali has $5 less than Nada and John has 4 times more than Nada. How much money does John have? Let's say that N is what Nada has, J is what John has, and A is what Ali has. We know that A = N - 5 and J = 4N. We also know that: N + A + J = $67 We can substitute the equations from step 1 into the equations from step 2 to get: N + 4N + (N-5) = $67 Combining like terms gets us 6N - 5 = $67 So, N=($67+5)/6 = $12 Substituting $12 back into the equation J = 4 N, we find John has 4 x 12 = $<<4*12=48>>48 #### 48 At the Boisjoli farm, there is a chicken coop where 270 hens and 3 roosters live. Every morning, around 8 a.m., Ms. Mosel goes to collect the eggs because, every morning, each hen lays one. Then, after 1 hour of collection, she puts all these eggs in boxes of 6. It takes her another 40 minutes. Once all this is done, Ms. Mosel brings all the boxes of eggs to her village. She does it from Monday to Sunday, because chickens don't have a day off. How many boxes does Ms. Mosel fill each week? First calculate the number of eggs laid in 1 week: 270 X 7 = 1890 eggs Now let’s put these eggs in the boxes: 1890 / 6 = <<1890/6=315>>315 boxes #### 315 Elmo has 3 times as many books as his sister, Laura. Laura has twice as many books as her brother, Stu. If Elmo has 24 books, how many books does Stu have? Laura has 24/3=<<24/3=8>>8 books. Stu has 8/2=<<8/2=4>>4 books. #### 4