Question: Dan owns an ice cream shop and every sixth customer gets a free ice cream cone. Cones cost $2 each. If he sold $100 worth of cones, how many free ones did he give away?
Answer with step-by-step thinking: He sold 50 cones because 100 / 2 = 50. He gave away 10 cones because 50 / 5 = 10.
So the answer is 10.


Question: Oliver collects trading cards. He has twice as many Monster Club cards as Alien Baseball cards. His Battle Gremlins card collection is the largest at 48 cards, three times the size of his Alien Baseball card collection. How many Monster Club cards does Oliver have?
Answer with step-by-step thinking: Oliver’s Alien Baseball card collection has 48 / 3 = 16 cards. Oliver has twice as many Monster Club cards, so he has 16 * 2 = 32 Monster Club cards.
So the answer is 32.


Question: Lizzie has half as many crayons as Bobbie. Bobbie has three times as many crayons as Billie. If Billie has 18 crayons, how many crayons does Lizzie have?
Answer with step-by-step thinking:
Bobbie has 18 * 3 = 54 crayons. Lizzie has 54 / 2 = 27 crayons.
So the answer is 27.