Q: Felicia is baking a cake. She needs 2 cups of flour, a cup of white sugar, a 1/4 cup of brown sugar, and a 1/2 cup of oil. Her only measuring scoop is 1/4 cup. How many times does she fill it to complete the measurements?
A: 15
Step-by-step reasoning process: She fills it 8 times for the flour because 2 / (1 / 4) = 8. She fills it 4 times for the white sugar because 1 / (1 / 4) = 4. She fills is 2 times for the oil because (1 / 2) / (1 / 4) = 2. She fills it 1 time for the brown sugar because she needs exactly 1 / 4 of a cup. She fills is 15 times because 8 + 4 + 2 + 1 equals 15.

Q: John has to restring 3 basses with 4 strings each, twice as many guitars which have 6 strings each, and 3 fewer 8 string guitars than the normal guitars. How many strings does he need?
A: 72
Step-by-step reasoning process: The basses take 3 * 4 = 12 strings. He restrings 2 * 3 = 6 normal guitars. That takes 6 * 6 = 36 strings. He restrings 6 - 3 = 3 guitars with 8 strings. So that uses 3 * 8 = 24 strings. So he uses 12 + 36 + 24 = 72 strings.

Q: Sandra had 2 different bags of candy. Each of her bags had 6 pieces of candy left. Her brother, Roger, also had 2 bags of candy. One of his bags of candy had 11 pieces left and the other had 3 pieces left. How much more candy did Roger have?
A: 2
Step-by-step reasoning process: Sandra had 2 bags that each contained 6 pieces of candy so 2 * 6 = 12 pieces. Roger had 11 pieces of candy in one bag and 3 pieces in the other so 11 + 3 = 14 pieces. Roger had 14 pieces and Sandra had 12 pieces so Roger has 14 - 12 = 2 more pieces of candy.

Q: A class of 12 students was about to share 108 oranges equally among themselves when it was discovered that 36 of the oranges were bad and had to be thrown away. How many oranges less will each student get now than if no orange had to be thrown away?
A: 3
Step-by-step reasoning process: If the 12 students had shared the 108 oranges, each student would have gotten 108 / 12 = 9 oranges. But 36 were removed so there are 108 - 36 = 72 oranges left. So 12 shared 72 for each to get 72 / 12 = 6 oranges. This is 9 - 6 = 3 less than they would each get if they did not have to throw any orange away.