Question: Miriam currently has 30 marbles, but she used to have more. Miriam gave her brother 60 marbles, gave her sister twice that amount and gave her friend Savanna three times the amount she currently has. How many marbles did Miriam start with?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: If Mariam remains with 30 marbles after giving her brother 60 marbles, she had 30 + 60 = 90 marbles. Mariam's sister receives twice as many marbles as her brother, a total of 2 * 60 = 120 marbles. The total number of marbles before giving any to her brother or sister is 120 + 90 = 210. Savannah is to receive three times as many marbles as Mariam has to remain with, a total of 3 * 30 = 90 marbles. Before giving out any marble, Mariam has 210 + 90 = 300 marbles.
So the answer is 300.

Question: Bryan bought three different bottles of milk. The bottles contain the following volumes of milk: 2 liters, 750 milliliters, 250 milliliters. How many liters of milk did Bryan buy in total?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: Bryan bought a total of 750 + 250 = 1000 milliliters of milk from the two smaller bottles. Since 1 liter is equal to 1000 milliliters, then 1000 milliliters is equal to 1000 / 1000 = 1 liter. Therefore, Bryan bought a total of 2 + 1 = 3 liters of milk.
So the answer is 3.

Question: Mrs. Amaro has 80 roses in her garden. Three-fourths of her roses are red, one-fourth of the remaining are yellow, and the rest are white. How many of Mrs. Amaro's roses are either red or white?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: Mrs. Amaro has 80 x 3 / 4 = 60 red roses. So, 80 - 60 = 20 roses are not red. Then, 20 x 1 / 4 = 5 of those 20 non - red roses are yellow. Hence, 20 - 5 = 15 roses are white. Therefore, 60 + 15 = 75 roses are either red or white.
So the answer is 75.

Question: Edna made cookies for all of her neighbors and left the cookies outside for them to take. She made 150 cookies so her 15 neighbors could get 10 cookies each. However, the neighbor who arrived last told Edna there were only 8 cookies left. Edna thinks it was Sarah who took too many cookies. If all the other neighbors took the correct amount of cookies, how many cookies did Sarah take?
Answer:
Step-by-step reasoning process: Sarah and the final neighbor took the wrong amount, which means that 15 neighbors 1 Sarah 1 final neighbor = 13 neighbors took 10 cookies each. This is a total of 13 neighbors * 10 cookies = 130 cookies taken by the first 13 neighbors. There were only 8 cookies left, so that means the first 13 neighbors and Sarah took a total of 150 8 = 142 cookies. So Sarah must have taken 142 130 = 12 cookies.
So the answer is 12.