You are given a math word problem and you are supposed to apply a single mathematical operators like addition, subtraction, multiplication or division on the numbers embedded in the text to answer the following question and then only report final the numerical answer.
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Question: Mike has 87 baseball cards . Sam bought 13 of Mike 's baseball cards . How many baseball cards does Mike have now ?

Answer: 74


Question: A candy store has 6 boxes of chocolates . Each box has 500 pieces . How many pieces are there altogether in the boxes ?

Answer: 3000


Question: Eric has 3 boxes of pencils . Each box holds 9 pencils . How many pencils does Eric have ?

Answer:
27