acnagle/gsm8k-filtered huggingface dataset:
James paves a new parking lot. It is 400 feet by 500 feet. Only 80% of that is useable for parking. It takes 10 square feet to park a car.

Question: How many cars can be parked?
Answer: The parking lot is 400*500=<<400*500=200000>>200,000
There are 200,000*.8=<<200000*.8=160000>>160,000 square feet of parking space
That means he can park 16,0000/10=16000 cars
#### 16000
Emma buys 2 containers of milk every school day for lunch. She does not go to school on the weekends.

Question: How many containers of milk does she buy in 3 weeks?
Answer: There are 5 school days in a week: 5 days/week x 2 containers of milk/day = 10 containers of milk every week
Finally the number of container for 3 weeks is 3 weeks x 10 containers/week = <<3*10=30>>30 containers
#### 30
Jacob has half the number of shoes Edward has. Edward has 3 times the number of shoes Brian has.

Question: If Brian has 22 pairs of shoes, how many pairs of shoes do they have in total?
Answer: Edward has 3 * 22 = <<3*22=66>>66 pairs of shoes.
Jacob has 66 / 2 = <<66/2=33>>33 pairs of shoes.
All of them have 22 + 66 + 33 = <<22+66+33=121>>121 pairs of shoes in total.
#### 121
Roberto recently received a 20% raise from his previous salary, which was already 40% higher than his starting salary.

Question: If Roberto's starting salary was $80,000, what is his current salary?
Answer: Roberto has received 2 raises. On his first raise he received a 40% bump, therefore his new salary was $80,000 * 140% = $<<80000*140*.01=112000>>112,000
On his second raise, Roberto received a 20% bump, therefore his current salary is $112,000 * 120% = $<<112000*120*.01=134400>>134,400
#### 134400
Andy harvests all the tomatoes from 18 plants that have 7 tomatoes each.

Question: If he dries half the tomatoes and turns a third of the remainder into marinara sauce, how many tomatoes are left?
Answer: First find the total number of tomatoes harvested: 18 plants * 7 tomatoes/plant = <<18*7=126>>126 tomatoes
Then divide that number by 2 to find how many tomatoes are left undried: 126 tomatoes / 2 = <<126/2=63>>63 tomatoes
Then divide that number by 3 to find how many tomatoes are turned into sauce: 63 tomatoes / 3 = <<63/3=21>>21 tomatoes
Then subtract that number from the number of undried tomatoes to find the remaining number of tomatoes: 63 tomatoes - 21 tomatoes = <<63-21=42>>42 tomatoes
#### 42
Jack is on the phone with a scammer who says the IRS will arrest Jack if he doesn't send them the codes from 6 $500 Best Buy gift cards and 9 $200 Walmart gift cards. After sending the codes for 1 Best Buy gift card and 2 Walmart gift cards, Jack wises up and hangs up.

Question: How many dollars' worth of gift cards can he still return?
Answer: First find the number of Best Buy gift cards Jack needs to return: 6 cards - 1 cards = <<6-1=5>>5 cards
Then multiply that number by the cost per card to find the total refund Jack gets from Best Buy: 5 cards * $500/card = $<<5*500=2500>>2500
Then find the number of Walmart gift cards Jack needs to return: 9 cards - 2 cards = <<9-2=7>>7 cards
Then multiply that number by the cost per card to find the total refund Jack gets from Walmart: 7 cards * $200/card = $<<7*200=1400>>1400
Then add the two refunds to find his total refund amount: $2500 + $1400 = $<<2500+1400=3900>>3900
#### 3900
Luna's monthly food budget is equal to 60% of her house rental budget while her phone bill budget is 10% of her food budget.

Question: If the total budget of house rental and food budget is $240, how much is Luna's total monthly budget to pay all those expenses?
Answer: Let x be Luna's house rental budget.
The total budget for house and food rental is represented by the equation x + (60x/100) = 240.
The equation becomes 100x + 60x = 24000 after multiplying each term by 100 to get rid of the fraction.
By combining like terms, the equation becomes 160x = 24000.
Thus, the value of x is 24000/160 = <<24000/160=150>>150 which represents the house rental budget.
So, Luna's food budget is $240 - $150 = $<<240-150=90>>90.
Her phone bill budget is $90 x 10/100 = $<<90*10/100=9>>9.
Therefore, Luna's monthly budget for all those expenses is $240 (house and food) + $9 (phone) = $<<240+9=249>>249.
#### 249
The student council sells scented erasers in the morning before school starts to help raise money for school dances. The local bookstore donated 48 boxes of erasers. There are 24 erasers in each box.

Question: If the student council sells the erasers for $0.75 each, how much money will they make?
Answer: There are 48 boxes x 24 erasers = <<48*24=1152>>1,152 erasers.
The student council will make 1,152 erasers x $0.75 = $<<1152*0.75=864>>864.
#### 864
Betty is 60 years old, and she is the oldest person in the family. Her daughter is 40 percent younger than she is, and her granddaughter is one-third her mother's age.

Question: How old is the granddaughter?
Answer: Betty's daughter is 40/100 * 60 = <<40/100*60=24>>24 years younger than she is.
That means her daughter is 60 - 24 = <<60-24=36>>36 years old.
So the granddaughter is 1/3 * 36 = <<1/3*36=12>>12 years old.
#### 12
Joy fosters dogs. The mom foster dog eats 1.5 cups of food, three times a day. The puppies each eat 1/2 cup of food, twice a day. There are 5 puppies.

Question: How much food will Joy need for the next 6 days?
Answer: The mom dog eats 1.5 cups of food * 3 = <<1.5*3=4.5>>4.5 cups per day.
For 6 days the mom dog will need 6 * 4.5 cups = <<6*4.5=27>>27 cups of food.
The puppies eat 1/2 cup of food * 2 = <<1/2*2=1>>1 cup per day.
There are 5 puppies * 1 cup = <<5*1=5>>5 cups per day for the puppies.
For the 6 days, the puppies will need 5 cups * 6 = <<5*6=30>>30 cups of food.
Combined the dogs will need 27 cups + 30 cups = <<27+30=57>>57 cups.
#### 57
There are 84 people waiting in line to ride a roller coaster at an amusement park. The roller coaster has 7 cars, and each car seats 2 people.

Question: How many times will the ride operator have to run the roller coaster to give everyone in line a turn?
Answer: Each run will hold 7 * 2 = <<7*2=14>>14 people.
The ride will have to run 84 / 14 = <<84/14=6>>6 times.
#### 6
Rodney has 35 dollars more than Ian. Ian has half as much money as Jessica has.

Question: If Jessica has 100 dollars, how much more money does Jessica have than Rodney?
Answer: Ian has 100/2 = <<100/2=50>>50 dollars.
Rodney has 50+35 = <<50+35=85>>85 dollars.
Jessica has 100-85 = <<100-85=15>>15 more dollars than Rodney.
#### 15
Tracy, Michelle, and Kati take a road trip that is a total of 1000 miles. Tracy drives 20 miles more than twice Michelle, and Michelle drives 3 times the amount that Katie drives.

Question: How many miles does Michelle drive?
Answer: Let x represent the number of miles Kati drives
Michelle:3x
Tracy:20+2(3x)=20+6x
Total:x+3x+20+6x=1000
10x+20=1000
10x=980
x=<<98=98>>98 miles
3(98)=<<3*98=294>>294 miles
#### 294
Dale owns 4 sports cars. The red one can travel at twice the speed of the green one, but the green one can travel at 8 times the speed of the blue one. The yellow one is broken and cannot move at all.

Question: If the blue one can travel at a speed of 80 miles per hour, at what speed, in miles per hour, can the red car travel?
Answer: If the blue car can travel at 80 mph, then the green one can travel at 8*80=<<8*80=640>>640 mph
If the green car can travel at 640 mph, then the red can travel at 2*640=1280 mph
#### 1280
John pays for half the cost of raising a child. It cost $10,000 a year for the first 8 years and then twice that much per year until the child is 18. University tuition then costs $250,000.

Question: How much did it cost?
Answer: The first 8 years cost 8*10,000=$<<8*10000=80000>>80,000
The next 18-8=<<18-8=10>>10 years
They cost 10000*2=$<<10000*2=20000>>20,000 per year
So they cost 20,000*10=$<<20000*10=200000>>200,000
So the cost was 200,000+80,000=$<<200000+80000=280000>>280,000
Adding in the cost of tuition brings the cost to 250,000+280,000=$<<250000+280000=530000>>530,000
Since John pays for half the cost of raising the child, he pays $530000/2 = <<530000/2=265000>>265000
#### 265000
At a gym, the blue weights are 2 pounds each, and the green weights are 3 pounds each. Harry put 4 blue weights and 5 green weights onto a metal bar. The bar itself weighs 2 pounds.

Question: What is the total amount of weight, in pounds, of Harry's custom creation?
Answer: The blue weights weigh 4*2=<<4*2=8>>8 pounds
The green weights weigh 5*3=<<5*3=15>>15 pounds
The weights weigh 8+15=<<8+15=23>>23 pounds.
The total is then 23+2=<<23+2=25>>25.
#### 25
Cindy tosses 5 dimes into the wishing pond. Eric flips 3 quarters into the pond. Garrick throws in 8 nickels. Ivy then drops 60 pennies in.

Question: If Eric dips his hands into the water and pulls out a quarter, how much money, in cents, did they put into the pond?
Answer: Cindy puts in 10 cents x 5 = <<10*5=50>>50 cents.
Eric puts in 3 x 25 cents = <<3*25=75>>75 cents.
Garrick puts in 8 x 5 cents = <<8*5=40>>40 cents.
Ivy puts in 60 x 1 cent = <<60*1=60>>60 cents.
After Eric pulls out a quarter, he has still left in the pond, 75 - 25 = <<75-25=50>>50 cents.
Together, they put into the pond, this amount of money, 50 + 50 + 40 + 60 = <<50+50+40+60=200>>200 cents
#### 200
Anthony and his friend Leonel read about the importance of keeping pets at home and decided to start adopting cats and dogs from the local rescue center. Anthony has 12 cats and dogs, 2/3 of which are cats. Leonel has half times as many cats as Anthony and seven more dogs than Anthony.

Question: How many animals in total do the two have?
Answer: If Anthony has 12 pets, the number of cats is 2/3 * 12 pets = <<12*2/3=8>>8 cats
The number of dogs that Anthony have is 12 pets - 8 cats = <<12-8=4>>4 dogs
Leonel has 1/2 * 8 cats = <<8*1/2=4>>4 cats.
If Leonel has seven more dogs than Anthony, then he has 4 dogs + 7 dogs = <<7+4=11>>11 dogs
The total number of pets the two have is 11 dogs for Leonel + 4 cats for Leonel + 4 dogs for Anthony + 8 cats for Anthony = <<11+4+4+8=27>>27
#### 27
Steve wanted to make a total of $100 within four days, so he took on a berry-picking job in Sweden. The job paid $2 for every pound of lingonberries picked. On Monday he picked 8 pounds. Tuesday’s harvest was triple what he had picked the previous day. On Wednesday he felt very tired and decided to rest.

Question: How many pounds of lingonberries did Steve have to pick on Thursday?
Answer: On Monday, Steve was paid 8 * 2 = <<8*2=16>>16 dollars
Tuesday’s harvest was 3 * 8 = <<3*8=24>>24 pounds
The 24 pounds Steve picked on Tuesday gave him 24 * 2 = <<24*2=48>>48 dollars
So, the amount Steve earned from the first two days on the job is 16 +48 = <<16+48=64>>64 dollars
Since Steve rested on Wednesday, he made 0 dollars, meaning his earnings were 64 + 0 = <<64+0=64>>64 dollars
The difference between Steve’s earnings and his target is 100 - 64 = <<100-64=36>>36 dollars
Since he was paid 2 dollars for each pound of lingonberries, Steve needed to pick 36/2 = <<36/2=18>>18 pounds
#### 18
Bert was able to sell 8 toy phones for $18 each, while Tory was able to sell 7 toy guns for $20 each.

Question: How much more did Bert earn than Tory?
Answer: Bert was able to earn 8 x $18 = $<<8*18=144>>144 for the toy phones.
While Tory was able to earn 7 x $20 = $<<7*20=140>>140 for the toy guns.
Therefore, Bert was able to earn $144 – $140 = $<<144-140=4>>4 more than Tory.
#### 4
Pauline will make tacos for dinner. She bought a box of taco shells that cost $5, 4 bell peppers that cost $1.5 each, and 2 pounds of meat that cost $3 per pound.

Question: How much did she spend in all?
Answer: She spent 4 x $1.5 = $<<4*1.5=6>>6 for the four bell peppers.
She spent 2 x $3 = $<<2*3=6>>6 for the 2 pounds of meat.
So, Pauline spent $5 + $6 + $6 = $<<5+6+6=17>>17 in all.
#### 17
A package of candy has 3 servings with 120 calories each. John eats half the package.

Question: How many calories did he eat?
Answer: There were 3*120=<<3*120=360>>360 calories in the package
So he ate 360/2=<<360/2=180>>180 calories
#### 180
Diane bought twenty more apples than Cecile.

Question: If Cecile bought 15 apples, how many apples did they buy altogether?
Answer: Diane bought 15 + 20 = <<15+20=35>>35 apples.
Therefore, they bought 15 + 35 = <<15+35=50>>50 apples altogether.
#### 50
At a roller derby, 4 teams are competing. Each team is made up of 10 members, and each member needs a pair of roller skates to compete in and another pair of skates as a backup. None of the skates have laces yet, so each member is offered 3 sets of laces per pair of skates.

Question: How many sets of laces have been handed out?
Answer: There are a total of 4 teams * 10 members per team = <<4*10=40>>40 team members.
Each person receives 1 pair of competing roller skates + 1 pair of backup roller skates = <<1+1=2>>2 pairs of roller skates.
So there are a total of 40 team members * 2 pairs of roller skates per team member = <<40*2=80>>80 roller skates.
There were therefore 80 roller skates * 3 sets of laces per pair of roller skates = <<80*3=240>>240 sets of laces handed out.
#### 240
Bucky earns money each weekend catching and selling fish. He wants to save up for a new video game, which costs $60. Last weekend he earned $35. He can earn $5 from trout and $4 from blue-gill. He caught five fish this Sunday.

Question: If 60% were trout, and the rest were blue-gill, how much more does he need to save before he can buy the game?
Answer: He is $25 short for the game because 60 - 35 = <<60-35=25>>25
He caught 3 trout because 5 x .6 = <<5*.6=3>>3
He caught 2 blue-gill because 5 - 3 = <<5-3=2>>2
He earned $15 from the trout because 3 x 5 = <<3*5=15>>15
He earned $8 from the blue-gill because 2 x 4 = <<2*4=8>>8
He earned $23 total because 15 + 8 = <<15+8=23>>23
He is $2 short because 25 - 23 = <<25-23=2>>2
#### 2
Rylee is bored and decides to count the number of leaves falling off the tree in her backyard. 7 leaves fall in the first hour. For the second and third hour, the leaves fall at a rate of 4 per hour.

Question: What is the average number of leaves which fell per hour?
Answer: 7 leaves fell in the first hour.
4 leaves fell in the second hour.
4 leaves fell in the third hour.
The total number of leaves that fell during the 3 hours is 7 + 4 + 4 = <<7+4+4=15>>15 leaves.
The average number of leaves that fell per hour is 15 leaves / 3 hours = <<15/3=5>>5 leaves per hour.
#### 5
Libby is building an igloo in her backyard using bricks of snow. She builds her igloo in rows, using a total of 10 rows of bricks of snow. The bottom half of the igloo has 12 bricks of snow in each row while the top half of the igloo has 8 bricks of snow in each row.

Question: How many bricks of snow did Libby use for her igloo?
Answer: In the bottom half of the igloo, there are 10 rows / 2 = <<10/2=5>>5 rows of bricks of snow.
So in the bottom half of the igloo, there are 5 rows * 12 bricks of snow in each row = <<5*12=60>>60 bricks of snow.
In the top half of the igloo, there are 5 rows * 8 bricks of snow in each row = <<5*8=40>>40 bricks of snow.
There is therefore a total of 60 + 40 = <<60+40=100>>100 bricks of snow in the igloo.
#### 100
In ten years, I'll be twice my brother's age. The sum of our ages will then be 45 years old.

Question: How old am I now?
Answer: Let X be my age now.
In ten years, I'll be X+<<+10=10>>10 years old.
In ten years, my brother will be (X+10)*1/2 years old.
In ten years, (X+10) + (X+10)*1/2 = 45.
So (X+10)*3/2 = 45.
X+10 = 45 * 2/3 = 30.
X = 30 - 10 = <<30-10=20>>20 years old.
#### 20
Haruto has tomato plants in his backyard. This year the plants grew 127 tomatoes. Birds had eaten 19 of the tomatoes. He picked the rest.

Question: If Haruto gave half of his tomatoes to his friend, how many tomatoes does he have left?
Answer: After the birds ate 19 of the tomatoes Haruto has 127 - 19 = <<127-19=108>>108 tomatoes left.
After giving half of his tomatoes to his friend, Haruto had 108 / 2 = <<108/2=54>>54 tomatoes.
#### 54
When it rains, the three holes in the garage roof leak water at different rates. The largest hole leaks at a rate of 3 ounces of water  per minute. The medium-sized hole leaks water at one-half the rate of the largest hole. And the smallest hole leaks water at a rate of one-third the rate of the medium-sized hole.

Question: When it rains, what is the combined amount of water, in ounces, that leak from all three holes over a 2-hour time period?
Answer: The medium-sized hole leaks at a rate of one-half that of the largest hole, or 3/2=<<3/2=1.5>>1.5 ounces per minute.
The small-sized hole leaks at a rate of one-third that of the medium-sized hole, or 1.5/3=<<1.5/3=0.5>>0.5 ounces per minute.
Combined, the three holes leak at a rate of 3+1.5+0.5=<<3+1.5+0.5=5>>5 ounces per minute.
Since one hour is 60 minutes, two hours is 2*60=<<2*60=120>>120 minutes.
In total, over the two hours, the three holes will leak a combined 120*5=<<120*5=600>>600 ounces of water.
#### 600
Robin likes to bake cupcakes for friends and to make her puppy North happy. Once Robin ate four cupcakes with chocolate sauce and twice as many cupcakes with buttercream frosting on her own.

Question: How many cupcakes did Robin eat?
Answer: Robin ate twice as many buttercream cupcakes as chocolate sauce cupcakes, or 2 * 4 = <<2*4=8>>8.
So in total she ate 4 + 8 = <<4+8=12>>12 cupcakes.
#### 12
Maddy's 4th grade class needs to make 1000 Valentine's Day cards to get a pizza party. There are 30 kids in the class.

Question: If everyone makes 8, how many more cards will they need to make to get a pizza party?
Answer: If 30 kids each make 8 cards, they will have made 240 cards because 30*8 = <<30*8=240>>240.
Since 1000-240 = <<1000-240=760>>760, they need to make 760 more cards.
#### 760
Jeff spends three times as many hours on the weekend catching up with his Facebook pals as he does working. Monday through Friday, however, he spends four times as many hours working as he does catching up.

Question: If he spends 3 hours every day catching up, how many hours does he spend working in an entire week?
Answer: On the weekend, Jeff works 3 / 3 = <<3/3=1>>1 hour each day.
On the weekdays, he spends 4 * 3 = <<4*3=12>>12 hours working each day.
Thus, he spends 2 * 1 + 5 * 12 = <<2*1+5*12=62>>62 hours working each week.
#### 62
John worked 8 hours a day every day from the 3rd to the 8th, including the 3rd and not including the 8th.

Question: How many hours did he work?
Answer: He worked for 8-3=<<8-3=5>>5 days
So he worked for 5*8=<<5*8=40>>40 hours
#### 40
A library has 7 rectangular tables and the remaining tables will be square tables. A rectangular table seats 10 pupils while a square table seats 4 pupils.

Question: How many square tables are needed so that 90 pupils can read at the same time?
Answer: The rectangular tables seat 7*10=<<7*10=70>>70 pupils.
The square tables will seat 90-70=<<90-70=20>>20 pupils.
The library needs 20/4=<<20/4=5>>5 square tables.
#### 5
Makenna is selling candy for her Softball Team. The box contains 25 milk chocolate bars, 25 dark chocolate bars, 25 milk chocolate with almond bars, and 25 white chocolate bars.

Question: What is the percentage of each type of chocolate bar?
Answer: Since there are four types of chocolate bars and each type has 25 bars, the total number of chocolate bars is 25*4=<<25*4=100>>100.
Since there is a total of 100 chocolate bars and four types of chocolate, we divide 100/4=<<100/4=25>>25%.
#### 25
To make a cherry pie, Veronica needs 3 pounds of pitted cherries. There are 80 single cherries in one pound of cherries. It takes 10 minutes to pit 20 cherries.

Question: How many hours will it take Veronica to pit all the cherries?
Answer: There are 80 cherries in a pound and she needs 3 pounds to make a pie so she needs 80*3 = <<80*3=240>>240 cherries
It takes her 10 minutes to pit a unit of 20 cherries. She has 240/20 = <<240/20=12>>12 units of cherries to pit
It takes 10 minutes to pit a unit of cherries and she has 12 units so it will take her 10*12 = <<10*12=120>>120 minutes
60 minutes are in 1 hour and it takes her 120 minutes so that’s 120/60 = <<120/60=2>>2 hours
#### 2
John uses 5 liters of fuel per km to travel.

Question: How many liters of fuel should John plan to use if he plans to travel on two trips of 30 km and 20 km?
Answer: The first trip will use 30*5=<<30*5=150>>150 liters of fuel.
The second trip will use 20*5=<<20*5=100>>100 liters of fuel.
The total liters of fuel are 150+100=<<150+100=250>>250 liters.
#### 250
A big snowstorm caused a large amount of snow to fall onto Grandpa's farm, and the wind caused the snow to pile up into a drift. But on the second day, it warmed up enough that half of the snowdrift melted. The third day, it snowed again, adding another 6 inches of snow onto the snowdrift. On the fourth day, another 18 inches of snow fell onto the snowdrift.

Question: If the snowdrift was 34 inches deep at the end of the fourth day, how deep in inches was the drift at the end of the first day?
Answer: The third and fourth day contributed 6+18=<<6+18=24>>24 inches to the depth of the snowdrift.
Therefore, the size of the snowdrift after half was melted on the second day, but before the snowfall on the third and fourth day, was 34-24=<<34-24=10>>10 inches.
If the size of the drift on the second day, after half of the snow had melted, was 10 inches, then the depth of the original drift created on day 1 was 2*10=20 inches deep.
#### 20
Ed and Jacob already had 2 shells in their shell collection. Then they went to the beach to collect even more. Ed found 7 limpet shells, 2 oyster shells, and 4 conch shells. Jacob found 2 more shells than Ed did.

Question: How many shells do the pair have altogether?
Answer: Ed found 7 shells + 2 shells + 4 shells = <<7+2+4=13>>13 shells at the beach.
Jacob found 13 shells + 2 shells = <<13+2=15>>15 shells at the beach.
In total Ed and Jacob have 2 shells + 13 shells + 15 shells = <<2+13+15=30>>30 shells.
#### 30
Dawn, Lydia, and Donna have a total of 200 bananas. Dawn has 40 more bananas than Lydia.

Question: If  Lydia has 60 bananas, how many bananas does Donna have?
Answer: If Lydia has 60 bananas, and Dawn has 40 more, then Dawn has 60+40 = <<60+40=100>>100 bananas.
The total number of bananas Dawn and Lydia have is 100+60 = <<100+60=160>>160 bananas.
Donna has 200-160 = <<200-160=40>>40 bananas.
#### 40
Bianca worked for 12.5 hours last weekend. Celeste worked for twice that amount of time and McClain worked 8.5 hours less than Celeste.

Question: How many minutes did the 3 people work in total?
Answer: Bianca = <<12.5=12.5>>12.5 hours
Celeste 2 * 12.5 = <<2*12.5=25>>25 hours
McClain = 25 - 8.5 = <<25-8.5=16.5>>16.5 hours
Total + 12.5 + 25 + 16.5 = <<+12.5+25+16.5=54>>54 hours
54 hours * 60 minutes = <<54*60=3240>>3240 minutes.
Bianca, Celeste and McClain worked a total of 3240 minutes last weekend.
#### 3240
John is holding a poker night with his friends and is getting the decks of cards ready before his friends show up. After losing so many cards from various decks, John thinks he needs to count exactly how many cards he has to make sure he has enough full decks for the night. Each deck of cards should hold 52 cards. He finds 3 half-full decks of cards and 3 full decks of cards. As he is arranging them, he realizes that the quality of a lot of the cards is quite poor and decides to throw 34 of the cards in the trash.

Question: How many cards does John now have?
Answer: In the full decks, John has a total of 52 cards in a full deck of cards * 3 full decks of cards = <<52*3=156>>156 cards.
A half-full deck of cards contains 52 cards in a full deck of cards / 2 = <<52/2=26>>26 cards.
So from the half-full decks, John has a total of 26 cards * 3 half-full decks = <<26*3=78>>78 cards.
This is a total of 156 cards from full decks + 78 cards from half-full decks = <<156+78=234>>234 cards.
After throwing some in the trash, he now holds a total of 234 cards - 34 trashed cards = <<234-34=200>>200 cards.
#### 200