Question: A mother buys a box of sweets. She kept 1/3 of the sweets and divided the rest between her 3 children. The eldest got 8 sweets while the youngest got half as many. If there are 27 pieces of sweets in the box, how many sweets did the second child gets?
Answer: The mother kept 27 x 1 / 3 = 9 pieces of sweets. So there were 27 - 9 = 18 sweets that were divided between the 3 children. The youngest child got 8 / 2 = 4 sweets. So the eldest and the youngest got a total of 8 + 4 = 12 sweets. Therefore, the second child gets 18 - 12 = 6 sweets. The answer is 6.

Question: Barry and his friend, Jim, went horseback riding across central Texas. They traveled at 5 miles per hour for 7 hours, and then stopped for the evening. The next day, they traveled at 6 miles per hour for 6 hours, and then at half that speed for another three hours, before stopping to rest for the night. On the third and final day, they traveled for 5 hours at 7 miles per hour. In total, how far did they travel, in miles, during their horseback riding trip?
Answer: On the first day, they traveled 5 * 7 = 35 miles. On the first part of the second day, they traveled 6 * 6 = 36 miles. The second part of the second day, at half their morning speed, they traveled (6 / 2) * 3 = 9 miles. On the final day, they traveled 5 * 7 = 35 miles. In total, they traveled 35 + 36 + 9 + 35 = 115 miles. The answer is 115.

Question: While buying DVDs at the store, Maria received a 25% discount. If the discount she received is $40, how much did she pay in total?
Answer: Since 100 percent represent the original price, and she received a 25% discount which is $40, the original price is 100 / 25 * 40 = 160. Maria paid $160 - $40 = $120 after receiving the twenty - five percent discount. The answer is 120.

Question: Samira is the assistant coach of a soccer team playing against one of the best teams in their league. She has four dozen water bottles filled with water in a box. In the first break of the match, the 11 players on the field each take two bottles of water from Samira's box, and at the end of the game, take one more bottle each. How many bottles of water are remaining in Samira's box?
Answer:
If the box has four dozen bottles of water, there are 4 * 12 = 48 bottles of water in the box. After the first half, the 11 players take 11 * 2 = 22 bottles of water from the box. If they take 11 more bottles of water at the end of the game, the number increases to 22 + 11 = 33 bottles of water taken. Without the bottles taken, there are 48 - 33 = 15 bottles of water remaining in the box. The answer is 15.