[Question]Helga works for a newspaper company. She can write 5 articles every 30 minutes, and she usually works 4 hours a day 5 days a week. If Helga worked an extra 2 hours last Thursday, and an extra 3 hours last Friday, how many articles was she able to write this week?
[Answer]Helga writes 5 x 2 = 10 articles per hour. And she can write 10 x 4 = 40 articles every 4 hours. So, the total number of articles she usually writes for a week is 40 x 5 = 200 articles. She was able to write 10 x 2 = 20 articles on her extra 2 hours last Thursday. And she was able to write 10 x 3 = 30 articles on her extra hour last Friday. So, the total number of articles she was able to write on her extra hours is 20 + 30 = 50. Therefore, she was able to write a total of 200 + 50 = 250 this week. The answer is 250.

[Question]Bailey is making a rectangle out of a 100cm length of rope he has. If the longer sides of the rectangle were 28cm long, what is the length of each of the shorter sides?
[Answer]The longer sides are 2 in number so their total length of 2 * 28cm = 56cm. The rest of the length making up the short sides is 100 - 56 = 44 cm. There are two equal short sides so each one is 44 / 2 = 22cm. The answer is 22.

[Question]A mother buys a box of sweets. She kept 1/3 of the sweets and divided the rest between her 3 children. The eldest got 8 sweets while the youngest got half as many. If there are 27 pieces of sweets in the box, how many sweets did the second child gets?
[Answer]The mother kept 27 x 1 / 3 = 9 pieces of sweets. So there were 27 - 9 = 18 sweets that were divided between the 3 children. The youngest child got 8 / 2 = 4 sweets. So the eldest and the youngest got a total of 8 + 4 = 12 sweets. Therefore, the second child gets 18 - 12 = 6 sweets. The answer is 6.

[Question]Gary buys 4 chickens. After two years, he has 8 times as many chickens as he started with. If each chicken lays 6 eggs a day, how many eggs does Gary currently collect every week?
[Answer]
After two years, Gary has 4 * 8 = 32 chickens. Gary collects each day 32 chickens * 6 eggs per chicken = 192 eggs. In a week he collects 192 eggs per day * 7 days per week = 1344 eggs. The answer is 1344.