Kaylee needs to sell 33 boxes of biscuits. So far, she has sold 12 boxes of lemon biscuits to her aunt, 5 boxes of chocolate biscuits to her mother, and 4 boxes of oatmeal biscuits to a neighbor. How many more boxes of biscuits does Kaylee need to sell?

The number of boxes already sold is 12 + 5 + 4 =

<<12+5+4=21>>21. Kaylee needs to sell 33 − 21 = 12 more boxes. #### 12 Every time she goes to the store, Felicity gets a lollipop. After she finishes them, she uses the sticks to build a fort. The fort needs 400 sticks to finish it. Her family goes to the store three times a week and she always goes. If the fort is 60% complete, how many weeks has Felicity been collecting lollipops for? She has 240 sticks because 400 x .6 = <<400*.6=240>>240 She has been going to the store for 80 weeks because 240 / 3 = <<240/3=80>>80 #### 80 Jim is wondering how many miles each gallon of gas gets him. His gas tank is 12 gallons. He has 2/3 of a tank left after he drives to and from work, which is 10 miles away from his house. How many miles per gallon does he get? He used 1/3 of his tank because 1 - (2/3) = 1/3 He used 4 gallons of gas because 12 x (1/3) = <<12*(1/3)=4>>4 He drove 20 miles because 2 x 10 = <<2*10=20>>20 He gets 5 miles per gallon because 20 / 4 = <<20/4=5>>5 #### 5 The length of the straight part of a river is three times shorter than the crooked part. If the river is 80 miles long, how long is the straight part of the river? Let's say the river's length in the straight part of the river is x. The total length of the river is the length of the straight part plus 3 times the length of the straight part for the crooked part, which is x+3x = 80 The total length of the river is 4x=80 The straight part of the river is x=80/4 = <<80/4=20>>20 miles. #### 20 Jimmy is setting up a garden. He has three plots: one plot for green beans, one plot for carrots, and one plot for corn. Each corn plant produces 5 times as many servings of veggies as each carrot, and each green bean plant produces half as many servings as each corn plant. If each carrot produces 4 servings of vegetables, and each plot has 9 plants, how many servings of vegetables is Jimmy growing? First, find how many servings one corn plant produces by multiplying the number of carrot servings by 5: 4 servings * 5 = <<4*5=20>>20 servings Then find how many servings one green bean plant produces by dividing the number of corn servings by two: 20 servings / 2 = <<20/2=10>>10 servings Now multiply the number of servings per carrot plant by the number of carrot plants: 4 servings/plant * 9 plants = <<4*9=36>>36 servings Do the same for corn: 20 servings/plant * 9 plants = <<20*9=180>>180 servings And do the same for green beans: 10 servings/plant * 9 plants = <<10*9=90>>90 servings Now add up the servings for all three types of plant: 36 servings + 180 servings + 90 servings = <<36+180+90=306>>306 servings #### 306 Tenisha had 40 dogs that she kept at home as pets. If 60% of them are female, and 3/4 of the female gives birth to 10 puppies each, calculate the total number of puppies that Tenisha remains with after donating 130 puppies to the church. If Tenisha has 40 dogs, the number of female dogs is 60/100*40 = 24 3/4 of the females give birth, meaning 3/4*24 = <<3/4*24=18>>18 female dogs gives birth to puppies. Since each dog that gave birth had 10 puppies, the number of puppies that were born is 18*10 = <<18*10=180>>180 After donating 130 puppies to the church, Tenisha remained with 180-130 = 50 puppies. #### 50 Jeremy loves to play Scrabble. He once played a three-letter word on a triple word score to earn thirty points. If before the word score was tripled, the first and third letters were each valued at one point apiece, how much was the middle letter valued at before the word score was tripled? Since the word score after being tripled was 30 points, then the word score before tripling was 30/3=<<30/3=10>>10 points. If before the word score was tripled, the first and third letters were each valued at one point apiece, then the value of the middle letter was 10-1-1=<<10-1-1=8>>8 points. #### 8 Oshea bought 200 basil seeds. He wants to plant them in planters. He has 4 large planters that can hold 20 seeds each. He also has small planters that can hold 4 seeds each. How many small planters will he need to plant all the basil seeds? The large planters can hold a total of 4 * 20 = <<4*20=80>>80 seeds. This will leave Oshea with 200 - 80 = <<200-80=120>>120 seeds remaining. This means he will need 120 / 4 = <<120/4=30>>30 small planters. #### 30 A rancher has 340 head of cattle. He was about to sell them all for $204,000 when 172 of them fell sick and died. Because of the sickness, his customers lost confidence in his cattle, forcing him to lower his price by $150 per head. How much money would the devastated farmer lose if he sold the remaining cattle at the lowered price compared to the amount he would have made by selling them at the original price? The rancher would have sold his cattle for $204,000/340 = $<<204000/340=600>>600 per head. He was left with a remainder of 340 - 172 = <<340-172=168>>168 head of cattle. The lowered price is $600 - $150 = $<<600-150=450>>450 per head. He would make $450 x 168 = $<<450*168=75600>>75,600 at the lowered price. He could have made $600 x 168 = $<<600*168=100800>>100,800 at the original price. He would lose $100,800 - $75,600 = $<<100800-75600=25200>>25,200 #### 25200 It takes 3 men an hour to complete a job. If they are hired to work on 5 such similar jobs by a company that pays each of them $10 per hour, calculate the total amount of money the three will earn when they complete the jobs? Since they are paid $10 each per hour of work and can complete a job in one hour, they earn a total of $10*3=$<<10*3=30>>30 together for an hour of work. If they earn together $30 for one job, for the five jobs, they'll earn $30*5=$<<30*5=150>>150 #### 150