Question: The Dark Lord needs to transport 1200 pounds of swords to the Enchanted Forest for a battle with the elves. He has 10 squads of 8 orcs each. How many pounds of swords does each orc have to carry?
Answer: First find how many orcs there are total by multiplying the number of orcs per squad by the number of squads: 8 orcs / squad * 10 squads = 80 orcs. Then divide the total amount of swords by the number of orcs to find the amount of swords per orc: 1200 pounds / 80 orcs = 15 pounds / orc. The answer is 15.

Question: Benjamin collects 6 dozen eggs a day. Carla collects 3 times the number of eggs that Benjamin collects. Trisha collects 4 dozen less than Benjamin. How many dozen eggs do the three collect total?
Answer: Carla:3(6) = 18 dozen eggs. Trisha: 6 - 4 = 2 dozen eggs. Total: 6 + 18 + 2 = 26 dozen eggs. The answer is 26.

Question: Mikey likes his honey cluster of oats cereal. In each spoonful, there are 4 clusters of oats. In each bowl of cereal, he gets 25 spoonfuls of cereal. If each box of cereal contains 500 clusters of oats, how many bowlfuls of cereal are in each box?
Answer: If each spoonful contains 4 clusters of oats, and each bowl of cereal has 25 spoonfuls, then in each bowl there are 4 * 25 = 100 clusters of oats. And If each box of cereal contains 500 clusters of oats, then there are 500 / 100 = 5 bowlfuls of cereal in every box. The answer is 5.

Question: Brittany has 3 gerbils: Puffy, Muffy, and Scruffy. Puffy weighs 5 ounces more than Muffy. Muffy weighs 3 ounces less than Scruffy. If Scruffy weighs 12 ounces, how much would the scale indicate, in ounces, if Brittany put Puffy and Muffy on the scale?
Answer:
Muffy weighs 12 - 3 = 9 ounces. Puffy weighs 5 + 9 = 14 ounces. If Brittany weighs both Puffy and Muffy, the scale would read 9 + 14 = 23 ounces. The answer is 23.