Question: Four small boxes can fit in one big box. If 50 big boxes can fit four small boxes each, each having 40 candles, calculate the total number of candles in all small boxes.
Answer: If 50 big boxes are fit 4 small boxes each, the number of small boxes is 4 * 50 = 200. Since the small boxes have 40 candles each, there are 40 * 200 = 8000 candles in total. The answer is 8000.
[Question]Karl, Ryan, and Ben are fond of collecting stickers. Karl has 25 stickers. Ryan has 20 more stickers than Karl. Ben has 10 fewer stickers than Ryan. They placed all their stickers in one sticker book. How many stickers did they place altogether?
[Answer]Ryan has 25 + 20 = 45 stickers. Ben has 45 - 10 = 35 stickers. Therefore, there are a total of 25 + 45 + 35 = 105 stickers placed all together in a sticker book. The answer is 105.
Q: If it takes 8 days for 3 builders to build a cottage. How long will it take 6 builders to build the same size cottage working at the same rate?
A: It would take one builder 8 x 3 = 24 days to build the cottage on his own. 6 builders can build the house in 24 / 6 = 4 days. The answer is 4.
Question: Aubree saw 20 beavers and 40 chipmunks by a tree when going to school and scared them away when they saw her. While coming back from school, she realized the number of beavers had doubled and the number of chipmunks had decreased by 10. What's the total number of animals she saw that day?
Answer: When going to school, she saw 40 + 20 = 60 animals. The number of beavers doubled to 20 * 2 = 40 beavers. The number of chipmunks decreased to 40 - 10 = 30 chipmunks. The total number of animals she saw on that day is 30 + 40 + 60 = 130 animals. The answer is 130.
[Question]A third of the contestants at a singing competition are female, and the rest are male. If there are 18 contestants in total, how many of them are male?
[Answer]There are 18 / 3 = 6 female contestants. There are 18 - 6 = 12 male contestants. The answer is 12.
[Question]The novel that everyone is reading for English class has half as many pages as their history book. Their science book has 4 times the amount of pages as their novel. If the history book has 300 pages, how many pages does their science book have?
[Answer]
Their novel is half as long as their 300 - page history book so it is 300 / 2 = 150 pages. Their science book has 4 times the amount of pages as their novel, which is 150 pages, so their science book has 4 * 150 = 600 pages. The answer is 600.