[Question]: Every morning, Carla puts 79 apples in her backpack to eat for lunch. Unfortunately, Buffy stole some of Carla's apples on the school bus, and 26 apples fell out of a hole on the bottom. So at lunchtime, Carla only had 8 apples remaining. How many apples did Buffy steal from Carla?
[Answer]: Let B be the number of apples that Buffy stole. Then 79 - B - 26 = 8. Combining constants produces 53 - B = 8. Adding B to both sides produces 52 = B + 8. Thus the number of apples stolen by Buffy is B = 53 - 8 = 45.
So the answer is 45.

[Question]: Janice opened an art book that she had found in the library and found 5 drawings on the first page. After opening the first ten pages, she realized that the number of drawings on each page increased by five after every page. How many drawings were in the first five pages?
[Answer]: If the first page had 5 drawings, and the number of drawings on each page increased by five, the second page had 5 + 5 = 10. The total number of drawings in the first 2 pages is 5 + 10 = 15. On the third page, the number of drawings increased to 10 + 5 = 15. The first three pages have a total of 15 + 15 = 30 drawings. The fourth page had 15 + 5 = 20 drawings. There are 30 + 20 = 50 drawings on the first four pages. The fifth page also had an extra 5 more drawings than the fourth page, totaling 20 + 5 = 25. For the first five pages, Janice saw 25 + 50 = 75 pages.
So the answer is 75.

[Question]: During April, the baker sold 453 cakes at $12 and 126 pies at $7. How much did the baker earn?
[Answer]:
The baker sold cakes for 453 * 12 = $5436. And pies for 126 * 7 = $882. In total the baker earned 5436 + 882 = $6318.
So the answer is 6318.