You are given a math word problem and you are supposed to apply multiple mathematical operators like addition, subtraction, multiplication or division on the numbers embedded in the text to answer the following question and then only report the final numerical answer.

[EX Q]: sarah picked 45 apples . her brother picked 9 apples . how many times as many apples did sarah pick ?
[EX A]: 5

[EX Q]: tom had $ 19 and he wanted to buy as many folders as he could . if 1 folder costs $ 2 how many folders can tom buy ?
[EX A]: 9.5

[EX Q]: annie takes trick or treating seriously . so days before halloween she makes sure that the details of her trick or treating are well planned . first she wanted to find out the number of houses in her village . if the village has 5 houses per block and has a total of 9 blocks how many houses are there in her village ?
[EX A]:
45