Baseball season opened up with the Chicago Cubs at home at Wrigley Field. They scored 2 home runs in the third inning, 1 home run in the fifth inning and 2 more home runs in the eighth inning. Their opponents, the Cardinals, scored 1 home run in the second inning and 1 home run in the fifth inning. How many more home runs did the Chicago Cubs score than the Cardinals in the game?

The Chicago Cubs scored 2 home runs in the third inning, 1 home run in the fifth inning, and 2 home runs in the eighth for a combined total of 2+1+2=

<<2+1+2=5>>5 home runs for the game. The Cardinals scored 1 home run in the second inning and 1 home run in the fifth inning for a combined total of 1+1=<<1+1=2>>2 home runs for the game. If the Chicago Cubs scored a total of 5 home runs in the game and the Cardinals scored a total of 2 home runs in the games then 5-2=<<5-2=3>>3 more home runs were scored by the Chicago Cubs than the Cardinals in the game. #### 3 There are 10 cars parked in a mall’s parking lot, each with the same number of customers inside. Each customer only makes 1 purchase. If the sports store makes 20 sales and the music store makes 30 sales, how many customers are in each of the cars? As each sale represents a customer, there must be a total of 20 sports store sales + 30 music store sales = <<20+30=50>>50 customers. There is an equal number of customers in every car, so there must be 50 total customers / 10 cars = <<50/10=5>>5 customers in each car. #### 5 A book library charges fifty cents per day on any book borrowed by its members to read outside the library's premises. At the start of May, Celine borrowed three books from the library to read at home for her upcoming examinations. If she returned one book 20 days after borrowing it, and the other two stayed at her house until the end of May, calculate the total amount of money that she paid at the library for lending the three books. Celine was charged $0.50 * 20 = $<<0.50*20=10>>10 for the book she returned to the library after 20 days. If the other two books stayed at her house until the end of May, she paid 31*$0.50= $<<31*0.5=15.5>>15.5 for each book. For the two books that stayed at her house until the end of May, Celine paid $15.5*2 = $<<15.5*2=31>>31 For the three books, Celine paid $31+10 = $<<31+10=41>>41 #### 41 Nancy replaced all of the old vinyl tiles in her bathroom with new hardwood flooring. She replaced flooring in two areas of the bathroom: a 10 foot by 10 foot central area, and a 6 foot by 4 foot hallway. How many square feet of hardwood flooring did Nancy install in her bathroom? 10 feet by 10 feet central area is 10*10=<<10*10=100>>100 square feet of space. 6 feet by 4 feet hallway is 4*6-24 square feet of space. Combined, the two areas where she replaced flooring contain 100+24=<<100+24=124>>124 square feet of space. #### 124 A company has 100 employees. 60% of the employees drive to work. Of the employees who don't drive to work, half take public transportation. How many employees use public transportation to get to work? Drive to work:100(.60)=60 Don't Drive to work:100-60=<<100-60=40>>40 Public Transportation:40(.50)=<<40*.50=20>>20 employees #### 20 Belle eats 4 dog biscuits and 2 rawhide bones every evening. If each rawhide bone is $1, and each dog biscuit is $0.25, then how much does it cost, in dollars, to feed Belle these treats for a week? A week's worth of rawhide bones cost 1*2*7=<<1*2*7=14>>14 dollars. A week's worth of dog biscuits cost 0.25*4*7=<<0.25*4*7=7>>7 dollars, Thus, in total, it cost 14+7=<<14+7=21>>21 dollars #### 21 If one Burmese python can eat one 50-cm alligator per week, how many Burmese pythons would it take to eat fifteen 50-centimeter alligators in three weeks? 15 alligators eaten over a period of 3 weeks is a rate of 15/3=<<15/3=5>>5 alligators per week. Under the normal rate of 1 alligator per week per python, it would take 5/1=<<15/3=5>>5 pythons to eat 15 alligators in 3 weeks. #### 5 James gets a fleet of gas transportation vans. He gets 6 vans. 2 of them are 8000 gallons. 1 of them is 30% less than that. The remaining trucks are 50% larger than the 2 trucks. How many gallons can he transport? His smaller truck is 8000*.3=<<8000*.3=2400>>2400 gallons smaller So it can transport 8000-2400=<<8000-2400=5600>>5600 gallons There are 6-2-1=<<6-2-1=3>>3 of the very large trucks Those trucks are each 8000*.5=<<8000*.5=4000>>4000 gallons larger So they can transport 8000+4000=<<8000+4000=12000>>12000 gallons So in total they transport 3*12000=<<3*12000=36000>>36000 The 8000-gallon trucks can transport 8000*2=<<8000*2=16000>>16000 gallons So in total he can transport 5600+16000+36000=<<5600+16000+36000=57600>>57600 gallons #### 57600 Amanda is figuring out how many bags of grass seed she needs to buy to cover a new lot the city is turning into a park. The lot measures 120 feet by 60 feet. One section that measures 40 feet by 40 feet will be covered with concrete, and the rest needs to be covered in grass seeds. Each bag of grass seeds covers 56 square feet. How many bags of grass seeds does Amanda need? First find the area of the lot by multiplying the width and the length: 120 ft * 60 ft = <<120*60=7200>>7200 sq ft. Then find the area of the square covered in concrete: 40 ft * 40 ft = <<40*40=1600>>1600 sq ft. Then subtract the concrete area from the total area to find the grassy area: 7200 sq ft - 1600 sq ft = <<7200-1600=5600>>5600 sq ft. Finally, divide this area by the area each bag covers to find the number of bags: 5600 sq ft / 56 sq ft/bag = <<5600/56=100>>100 bags. #### 100 Jerica is twice Louis' age. Matilda is 7 years older than Jerica. If Louis is 14, how many years old is Matilda? Jerica = 2 * 14 = <<2*14=28>>28 Matilda = 28 + 7 = <<28+7=35>>35 Matilda is <<35=35>>35 years old. #### 35