[Question]: A group of security guards were hired for the night shift at a factory. The four guards agreed to a rotating schedule to cover the nine hours of the night shift. The first guard would take three hours since they were still awake, the last guard would wake up early and take two hours, and the middle two guards would split the remaining hours. How many hours will each middle guard take?
[Answer]: The first and last guard will take 3 + 2 = 5 hours of the night shift. There are 9 hours in the night shift, so the middle two guards will cover 9 - 5 = 4 hours. Each middle guard will take 4 / 2 = 2 hours.
So the answer is 2.

[Question]: Vaishali wears a beautiful piece of clothing called a Saree, a traditional Indian dress for women. It is mostly tangerine-colored, with blue, brown, and gold-colored decorative stripes. There are three times as many gold stripes as brown stripes, and five times as many blue stripes as gold stripes. If there are 4 brown stripes, how many blue stripes does Vaishali's Saree have?
[Answer]: With 3 times as many gold stripes as brown stripes, this means there are 3 * 4 = 12 gold stripes. With five times as many blue stripes as gold stripes, this means there are 5 * 12 = 60 blue stripes.
So the answer is 60.

[Question]: On a road map, 1/4 inch represents 8 miles of actual road distance. The towns of Pence and Hillcrest are represented by points 3 3/8 inches apart on the map. What is the actual distance, in miles, between the towns?
[Answer]:
If 1 / 4 inch on the map represents 8 miles on real land, 1 inch represents 4 * 8 = 32 miles. Since 1 inch represents 32 miles, 3 inches represent 3 * 32 = 96 miles. 1 / 4 inch represents 8 miles, 1 / 8 inch represents 8 / 2 = 4 miles because 1 / 8 is half of 1 / 4. If 1 / 8 inch represents 4 miles, 3 / 8 of an inch represents 3 * 4 = 12 miles. This means 3 3 / 8 inches on the map translate to 96 + 12 = 108 miles.
So the answer is 108.