Question: A zoo has 8 parrots. It 3 times the number of snakes than parrots and 2 times the number of monkeys than snakes. The number of elephants is half the number of parrots and snakes added up, and there are 3 fewer zebras than elephants. What is the difference in number between the zebras and the monkeys?
Answer: The zoo has 8 x 3 = 24 snakes. It has 24 x 2 = 48 monkeys. The number of parrots and snakes added up is 8 + 24 = 32. There are 32 / 2 = 16 elephants. There are 16 - 3 = 13 zebras. The difference between zebras and monkeys is 48 - 13 = 35. The answer is 35.

Question: Santino has 2 papaya trees and 3 mango trees. If each papaya tree produces 10 papayas and each mango tree produces 20 mangos, how many fruits does Santino have in total?
Answer: Santino has 2 * 10 = 20 papaya fruits. Santino has 3 * 20 = 60 mango fruits. In total, Santino has 20 + 60 = 80 fruits. The answer is 80.

Question: Randy has $30. He spent $10 buying his lunch. He spent a quarter of the money he had left on an ice cream cone. What is the amount of money, in dollars, Randy has left?
Answer: Randy has 30 - 10 = 20 dollars left after buying lunch. Randy spent 20 / 4 = 5 dollars on the ice cream cone. Randy has 20 - 5 = 15 dollars left. The answer is 15.

Question: There are 516 cars in a parking lot. One-third are blue, one-half are red, and the rest are black. How many black cars are on the lot?
Answer:
Blue = 516 * (1 / 3) = 172 cars. Red = 516 * (1 / 2) = 258. Black = 516 - (172 + 258) = 86. There are 86 black cars on the lot. The answer is 86.