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question:The pet store can buy a goldfish for .25 and sell it for .75. The owner plans to use the profits from goldfish sales to buy a new tank, which costs 100. After one week, he is 45% short of the price. How many goldfish did he sell that week?
answer:The owner is 45% short of 100, which means he has 100 - (45% of 100) = 55. The profit from selling one goldfish is .75 - .25 = .50. To find out how many goldfish he sold, we divide the amount he is short by the profit from selling one goldfish: 55 / .50 = 110 goldfish. So, the owner sold 110 goldfish that week. 110 The answer is: 110
question:Asha has to buy some gifts but has no money. She decides to borrow 20 from her brother, 40 from her father, x from her mother and is gifted 70 by her granny. She adds this to her savings of 100 and goes out to Target to get what she wanted. If she spent 3/4 of the money, how much money did she remain with? If we know the answer to the above question is 65, what is the value of unknown variable x?
answer:Asha borrowed 20 from her brother, 40 from her father, x from her mother, and was gifted 70 by her granny. So the total amount of money she had is: 20 + 40 + x + 70 = 130 + x. She also had 100 in savings, so the total amount of money she had is: 130 + x + 100 = 230 + x. She spent 3/4 of the money, which means she spent (3/4) * (230 + x) = (3/4) * 230 + (3/4) * x = 172.5 + (3/4) * x. The amount of money she remained with is the total amount of money she had minus the amount of money she spent: (230 + x) - (172.5 + (3/4) * x) = 230 - 172.5 + x - (3/4) * x = 57.5 + (1/4) * x. We are given that the amount of money she remained with is 65, so we can write: 57.5 + (1/4) * x = 65. Subtracting 57.5 from both sides, we get: (1/4) * x = 7.5. Multiplying both sides by 4, we get: x = 30. The value of x is 30. 30 The answer is: 30
question:Josh has 85 marbles. There are three times as many blue marbles as red while the rest are yellow. If there are 14 red marbles, how many yellow marbles are there?
answer:If there are 14 red marbles, and three times as many blue marbles as red, then there are 14*3 = 42 blue marbles. The total number of red and blue marbles is 14+42 = 56 marbles. Since Josh has 85 marbles in total, the number of yellow marbles is 85-56 = 29 29 The answer is: 29
question:f Alex is serving caviar with potato chips and creme fraiche as a New Year's Eve appetizer, and he buys 3 individual bags of potato chips for 1.00 each, dollops each chip with some creme fraiche that costs 5.00, and adds 73.00 worth of caviar, and this appetizer serves 3 people, what is the cost per person for this appetizer?
answer:Alex buys 3 bags of potato chips for 1.00 each, so the total cost of the potato chips is 3 * 1.00 = 3.00 He adds creme fraiche that costs 5.00 He also adds caviar that costs 73.00 The total cost of the appetizer is 3.00 + 5.00 + 73.00 = 81.00 The appetizer serves 3 people, so the cost per person is 81.00 / 3 = 27.00 27 The answer is: 27