Question: Keanu was surfing towards the shore at a speed of 20 miles per hour. A shark was swimming alongside him, riding the same wave, when it doubled its speed and moved away from Keanu. There was a pilot fish swimming alongside Keanu and the shark, and when the shark increased its speed, the pilot fish also increased its speed and moved away from Keanu, but only increasing its speed by half as much as the shark had increased its speed by. What speed, in miles per hour, was the pilot fish swimming when it moved away from Keanu?
Answer with step-by-step thinking: The shark went from 20 miles per hour to a speed of 2 * 20 = 40 miles per hour. The shark increased its speed by 40 - 20 = 20 miles per hour. Half of the shark's increase in speed is 20 / 2 = 10 miles per hour. Thus the pilot fish had increased its speed to 20 + 10 = 30 miles per hour.
So the answer is 30.


Question: Nine members of the crafts club are making 2 necklaces each. It takes 50 beads to make each necklace. How many beads will they need in all?
Answer with step-by-step thinking: Two bracelets need 50 x 2 = 100 beads. So they will need 9 x 100 = 900 beads in all.
So the answer is 900.


Question: Ryan's party was 4 times as huge as Taylor's birthday party. If both parties combined had 240 people, how many people were there at Ryan's party?
Answer with step-by-step thinking:
To get the number of people at Taylor's party, we'll assume there were n people at his party. The total number of people at Ryan's party is 4 * n, four times the number of attendees at Taylor's party. Combined, there were 4n + n = 240 people at both parties. This translates to 5n = 240. The total number of people at Taylor's party is n = 240 / 5. There were n = 48 people at Taylor's party. Since Ryan's party was 4 times as huge as Taylor's party, at Ryan's party, there were 48 * 4 = 192 people.
So the answer is 192.