Question: Kelly puts string cheeses in her kids lunches 5 days per week. Her oldest wants 2 every day and her youngest will only eat 1. The packages come with 30 string cheeses per pack. How many packages of string cheese will Kelly need to fill her kids lunches for 4 weeks?
Answer: Her oldest wants 2 strings cheeses a day for 5 days so 2 * 5 = 10 string cheeses. Her youngest wants 1 string cheese a day for 5 days so 1 * 5 = 5 string cheeses. Together they want 10 + 5 = 15 string cheeses a week. Over 4 weeks, her kids will eat 15 string cheeses so 4 * 15 = 60 string cheeses. The bags have 30 per pack and she needs 60 so 60 / 30 = 2 packs of string cheese. The answer is 2.

Question: Peggy buys 3 folders, one each in the colors red, green, and blue. She puts ten sheets of paper in each folder, and then, she puts star-shaped stickers on each sheet of paper. In the red folder, each sheet of paper gets 3 stickers. In the green folder, each sheet of paper gets 2 stickers, and in the blue folder, each sheet gets 1 sticker. What is the total number of stickers Peggy uses?
Answer: For the red folder, 10 sheets of paper get 3 stickers each, for a total of 10 * 3 = 30 stickers. For the green folder, 10 sheets of paper get 2 stickers each, for a total of 10 * 2 = 20 stickers. For the blue folder, 10 sheets of paper get 1 sticker each, for a total of 10 * 1 = 10 stickers. In total, she uses 30 + 20 + 10 = 60 stickers. The answer is 60.

Question: Papi Calot prepared his garden to plant potatoes. He planned to plant 7 rows of 18 plants each. But he still has a bit of room left, so he’s thinking about adding 15 additional potato plants. How many plants does Papi Calot have to buy?
Answer: Let’s first calculate the number of plants that Papi had planned: 7 rows * 18 plants / row = 126 plants. Now let’s add the other plants: 126 plants + 15 plants = 141 plants. So Papi has to buy 141 plants. The answer is 141.

Question: When Harriett vacuumed the sofa and chair she found 10 quarters, 3 dimes, 3 nickels, and 5 pennies. How much money did Harriett find?
Answer:
She found 10 quarters that are $0.25 each so she found 10 * .25 = $2.50. She found 3 dimes that are $0.10 each so she found 3 * .10 = $0.30. She found 3 nickels that are $0.05 each so she found 3 * .05 = $0.15. She found 5 pennies that are $0.01 each so she found 5 * .01 = $0.05. All total she found 2.50 + .30 + .15 + .05 = $3.00 in change. The answer is 3.