Question: Ryan wants to take 5 peanut butter sandwiches to the beach. If each sandwich consists of 3 slices of bread how many slices does Ryan need to make 5 sandwiches?
Answer: To make 1 sandwich, you need 3 slices so Ryan needs 1 * 3 = 3 slices to make one sandwich. Since it takes 3 slices to make a sandwich, and Ryan wants 5 sandwiches to take to the beach he needs 3 * 5 = 15 slices. The answer is 15.

Question: Ms. Alice can grade 296 papers in 8 hours. How many papers can she grade in 11 hours?
Answer: First you must recognize that the problem involves finding the rate of how fast Ms. Alice can grade papers. To find how many papers she can grade in 11 hours, it would be useful to first find out how many papers she can grade in one hour. To do so, divide 296 papers by 8 hours, 296 / 8, to get 37. Therefore, Ms. Alice can grade 37 papers in one hour. To find out how many papers she can grade in 11 hours, multiply the number of papers she can grade in one hour by 11. 37 * 11 gives you 407. Ms. Alice can grade 407 papers in 11 hours. The answer is 407.

Question: Patrick has been saving money to buy a bicycle that costs $150. He saved half the price but he then lent $50 to his friend. How much money does Patrick have now?
Answer: Half of the price of the bicycle is 150 / 2 = $75. The money that Patrick has now is 75 50 = $25. The answer is 25.

Question: Ali, Nada, and John have a total of $67 in their wallets. Ali has $5 less than Nada and John has 4 times more than Nada. How much money does John have?
Answer:
Let's say that N is what Nada has, J is what John has, and A is what Ali has. We know that A = N - 5 and J = 4N. We also know that: N + A + J = $67. We can substitute the equations from step 1 into the equations from step 2 to get: N + 4N + (N - 5) = $67. Combining like terms gets us 6N - 5 = $67. So, N = ($67 + 5) / 6 = $12. Substituting $12 back into the equation J = 4 N, we find John has 4 x 12 = $48. The answer is 48.