Question: Ken, Dave, and Jerry played shuffleboard against one another while together vacationing in Florida. Ken won 5 more games than Dave, and Dave won 3 more games than Jerry. If Jerry won 7 games, what was the total number of games they played?
Answer: If Dave won 3 more games than Jerry, and Jerry won 7 games, then Dave won 10 games. If Ken won 5 more games than Dave, and Dave won 10 games, then Ken won 10 + 5 = 15 games. In total, the three friends played 7 + 10 + 15 = 32 games. The answer is 32.

Question: There's a Bobbit worm hiding in the bottom of James' aquarium. Every day it eats 2 fish. After two weeks, James adds 8 more fish to the aquarium. A week later, he discovers the Bobbit worm. If the aquarium had 60 fish to start with, how many does it have when James discovers the Bobbit worm?
Answer: First find the total number of weeks the Bobbit worm preys on the fish: 2 weeks + 1 week = 3 weeks. Then multiply that number by the number of days per week: 3 weeks * 7 days / week = 21 days. Then multiply that number by the number of fish the worm eats per day to find how many fish it eats total: 21 days * 2 fish / day = 42 fish. Then add the number of fish James adds to the starting number of fish to find the ending number of fish: 60 fish + 8 fish = 68 fish. Then subtract the number of eaten fish to find the number of surviving fish: 68 fish - 42 fish = 26 fish. The answer is 26.

Question: The town is having a race to see who can run around the town square 7 times the fastest. The town square is 3/4 of a mile long. The winner finishes the race in 42 minutes. Last year's winner finished in 47.25 minutes. How many minutes on average faster did this year's winner run one mile of the race compared to last year?
Answer: The race is 5.25 miles long because 7 x .75 = 5.25. They ran a mile in 8 minutes because 42 / 5.25 = 8. Last year's winner ran a mile in 9 minutes because 47.25 / 5.25 = 9. They ran 1 minute faster per mile compared to last year's winner. The answer is 1.

Question: Bill and Ted head to the river to throw stuff into the water. Bill throws 6 more sticks into the river than Ted does, but Ted tosses twice as many rocks into the river as Bill. If Ted tosses 10 sticks and 10 rocks into the river, how many objects did Bill toss into the river?
Answer:
Bill throws 10 + 6 = 16 sticks into the river. Bill throws 10 / 2 = 5 rocks into the river. Bill throws 16 + 5 = 21 objects in total into the river. The answer is 21.