Question: Codger is a three-footed sloth. He has a challenging time buying shoes because the stores only sell the shoes in pairs. If he already owns the 3-piece set of shoes he is wearing, how many pairs of shoes does he need to buy to have 5 complete 3-piece sets of shoes?
Answer with step-by-step thinking: To have five 3 - piece sets, he needs to have a total of 5 * 3 = 15 shoes,. If he already owns three shoes, then he needs to buy 15 - 3 = 12 additional shoes. Since each pair of shoes includes two shoes, he needs to buy a total of 12 / 2 = 6 pairs of shoes.
So the answer is 6.


Question: Cary is 72 inches tall. Her younger brother Bill is half her height, and her younger sister Jan is 6 inches taller than Bill. How tall is Jan?
Answer with step-by-step thinking: First find Bill's height by dividing Cary's height by 2: 72 inches / 2 = 36 inches. Then add six inches to find Jan's height: 36 inches + 6 inches = 42 inches.
So the answer is 42.


Question: Marta sells tomatoes in a grocery store. On Friday, a shipment of 1000 kg of tomatoes arrived at the store. On Saturday, Marta sold a total of 300 kg of tomatoes to customers. On Sunday, the store was closed, causing 200 kg of tomatoes to rot and to be thrown away. On Monday morning another shipment arrived, twice the size of the first one. How many kilograms of tomatoes did Marta have ready for sale on Tuesday?
Answer with step-by-step thinking:
Marta had 1000 kg of tomatoes on Friday and sold 300 kg on Saturday, so she has 1000 – 300 = 700 kg of tomatoes left. On Sunday 200 kg of tomatoes had to be thrown away, so 700 – 200 = 500 kg of tomatoes were left. The shipment on Monday was twice the size of the first one, so it was 2 * 1000 = 2000 kg of tomatoes. The total amount of tomatoes ready for sale on Tuesday was 500 + 2000 = 2500 kg.
So the answer is 2500.