Tickets to the school play cost $6 for students and $8 for adults. If 20 students and 12 adults bought tickets, how many dollars' worth of tickets were sold?

How much did the students buy? ** The students bought $6*20=$

<<6*20=120>>120 worth of tickets How much did the adults buy? ** The adults bought $8*12=$<<8*12=96>>96 worth of tickets How much did the tickets cost in total? ** Together $120 + $96 = $<<120+96=216>>216 worth of tickets were sold #### 216 Last week, Tony went to a toy store and bought $250 a set of Lego blocks, a $120 worth toy sword, and a $35 play dough. He bought 3 sets of lego, 7 toy swords, and 10 play doughs. How much did Tony pay in total? How much did the legos cost? ** The total cost for the legos are 3 x $250 = $<<3*250=750>>750. How much did the toy swords cost? ** The total cost for the toy swords is 7 x $120 = $<<7*120=840>>840. How much did the play doughs cost? ** The total cost for the play doughs is 10 x $35 = $<<10*35=350>>350. How much did Tony pay in total? ** Therefore the total cost for everything is $750 + $840 + $350 = $<<750+840+350=1940>>1940. #### 1940 Carla needs to bring water to her animals. Each horse needs twice as much water as a pig, and the chickens drink from one tank that needs 30 gallons. How many gallons of water does Carla need to bring if she has 8 pigs and 10 horses and each pig needs 3 gallons of water? How many gallons of water do the pigs need? ** First figure out how much water all the pigs need: 8 pigs * 3 gallons/pig = <<8*3=24>>24 gallons How many gallons of water does a horse need? ** Then figure out how much water one horse needs by multiplying a pig's needs by 2: 3 gallons * 2 = <<3*2=6>>6 gallons How many gallons of water do the horses need? ** Now find how much water all the horses need: 10 horses * 6 gallons/horse = <<10*6=60>>60 gallons How many gallons of water does Carla need to bring? ** Finally, add up all the animals' water needs: 24 gallons + 60 gallons + 30 gallons = <<24+60+30=114>>114 gallons #### 114 James has 3 gallons of milk. He drank 13 ounces of the milk. If there are 128 ounces in a gallon, how many ounces of milk does James have left? How many ounces are in a gallon? ** First find out how many ounces of milk James had to begin with by multiplying the number of gallons by the number of ounces per gallon: 3 gallons * 128 ounces/gallon = <<3*128=384>>384 oz How many ounces of milk does James have left? ** Now subtract the 13 ounces James drank from the initial amount of milk: 384 oz - 13 oz = <<384-13=371>>371 oz #### 371 Clive opens a box full of different colored balls. 
The box contains 6 blue balls, 4 red balls, 3 times as many green balls as blue ones and twice as many yellow ones as red ones. 
How many balls are in the box Clive opens? How many green balls are there? ** There are 3 times as many green balls as blue balls so green balls = blue balls * 3. Green balls = 6 blue balls * 3 = <<6*3=18>>18 green balls How many yellow balls are there? ** There are 2 times as many yellow balls as red ones so yellow balls = red balls * 2. Yellow balls = 4 red balls * 2 = <<4*2=8>>8 yellow balls How many balls are there? ** The total number of all the balls is 6 blue + 4 red + 18 green + 8 yellow: 6+4+18+8 = <<6+4+18+8=36>>36 balls #### 36 Christy and her friend Tanya go to Target to buy some face moisturizer and body lotions. Christy spends twice as much as Tanya, who pays 50$ for two face moisturizers each and 60$ per body lotion, buying four of them. How much money did they spend together in total? How much did Tanya spend on face moisturizers? ** The total amount Tanya spent on face moisturizers is 50*2 = $<<50*2=100>>100 How much did Tanya spend on body lotions? ** If she bought four body lotions, the total cost is 4*60 = $<<4*60=240>>240 How much did Tanya spend in total? ** Tanya spent a total of 240+100 = $<<240+100=340>>340 in the store. How much did Christy spend in total? ** If Christy spent twice this amount, the total was 2*340 = $ 680 How much money did they spend together in total? ** The total amount of money they both spent is 680+340 = <<680+340=1020>>1020$ #### 1020 Tom has a quarter as much money as Nataly. Nataly has three times as much money as Raquel. How much money do Tom, Raquel, and Nataly have combined if Raquel has $40? How much money does Nataly have? ** If Nataly has 3 times as much money as Raquel, she has 3 * $40 = $<<3*40=120>>120 How much money does Tom have? ** Tom has 1/4 as much money as Nataly, so he has 1/4 * $120 = $<<1/4*120=30>>30 How much money do Tom, Raquel, and Nataly have combined? ** Combined, the three have $30 + $120 + $40 = $<<30+120+40=190>>190 #### 190 Gerald wants to buy a meat pie that costs 2 pfennigs. Gerald has 54 farthings, and there are 6 farthings to a pfennig. How many pfennigs will Gerald have left after buying the pie? How many pfennigs does Gerald have? ** First convert the number of farthings Gerald has to pfennigs by dividing by the exchange rate: 54 farthings / 6 farthings/pfennig = <<54/6=9>>9 pfennigs How many pfennigs does Gerald have left? ** Then subtract the cost of the meat pie to find how many pfennigs Gerald has left: 9 pfennigs - 2 pfennigs = <<9-2=7>>7 pfennigs #### 7 Jack is trying to stack cans in his emergency bunker. If he can fit 12 cans in one row, 4 rows on one shelf, and 10 shelves in one closet, how many cans can he store in each closet? How many cans can Jack fit on one shelf? ** First find the total number of cans Jack can fit on one shelf: 12 cans/row * 4 rows/shelf = 48 cans/shelf How many cans can Jack fit in one closet? ** Then find the number of cans he can fit on all the shelves in one closet: 48 cans/shelf * 10 shelves = <<48*10=480>>480 cans #### 480 An animal shelter recently took in twelve cats. The shelter already had half that number of cats. Two days later, three had been adopted. The next day, one of the cats had five kittens, and one person arrived to pick up one of the cats that was their missing pet. How many cats does the shelter have now? How many cats did the shelter start with? ** The shelter started with 12 / 2 = <<12/2=6>>6 cats. How many cats did the shelter take in? ** The cats they took in increased the number to 12 + 6 = <<12+6=18>>18 cats. How many cats did the shelter have after the adoptions? ** Three cats were adopted, so they had 18 - 3 = <<18-3=15>>15 cats. How many cats did the shelter have after the kittens were born? ** One cat had 5 kittens, which increased the number of cats to 15 + 5 = 20 cats. How many cats does the shelter have now? ** The pet owner came to get his missing cat, so they now have 20 - 1 = <<20-1=19>>19 cats. #### 19