Q: Miranda is stuffing feather pillows. She needs two pounds of feathers for each pillow. A pound of goose feathers is approximately 300 feathers. Her goose has approximately 3600 feathers. How many pillows can she stuff after she plucks the goose?
A: 6
Step-by-step reasoning process: Miranda will have 3600 / 300 = 12 pounds of feathers from her goose. Thus, Miranda can stuff about 12 / 2 = 6 feather pillows after she plucks the goose.

Q: If Pam is currently twice as young as Rena is, and in 10 years Rena will be 5 years older than her, how old is Pam now?
A: 5
Step-by-step reasoning process: If Rena will be 5 years older than Pam in 10 years, this means they have a 5 year age gap. Therefore, to be twice Pam's age, Rena would have to be 5 * 2 = 10 years old. This means that Pam is currently 10 - 5 = 5 years old.

Q: Cassandra collected 5000 pennies for the charity drive. James collected 276 fewer pennies. How many pennies did they donate to charity?
A: 9724
Step-by-step reasoning process: James has 5000 - 276 = 4724 pennies. They donated a total of 5000 + 4724 = 9724 pennies.

Q: 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. How many sets of laces have been handed out?
A: 240
Step-by-step reasoning process: There are a total of 4 teams * 10 members per team = 40 team members. Each person receives 1 pair of competing roller skates + 1 pair of backup roller skates = 2 pairs of roller skates. So there are a total of 40 team members * 2 pairs of roller skates per team member = 80 roller skates. There were therefore 80 roller skates * 3 sets of laces per pair of roller skates = 240 sets of laces handed out.