Question: A local college is offering German lessons and currently has 8 students enrolled. Through advertising, 8 more became interested but a fourth of these dropped out within a day. 2 more got frustrated and left. The class then rallied to show how simple the course actually is and increased enrollment by 5 times the amount of students already enrolled in the class, but 2 had to drop it because of scheduling conflicts. After one last rally, 6 more people enrolled. As the days passed, half of the class eventually dropped, and half of the remaining students graduated. How many are still enrolled?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: 8 + 8 = 16 students are enrolled in the German class. 8 * .25 = 2 dropped out from the new recruits. 2 more left, so the class had 16 - 2 - 2 = 12 students left. There were 12 * 5 + 12 = 72 total students in the class after the rally. Two people had to drop the class, so there were 72 - 2 = 70 left. 70 + 6 = 76 were enrolled after the final rally. 76 / 2 = 38 are left after half the class dropped. 38 / 2 = 19 are left after half the class graduated.
So the answer is 19.

Question: A dime has the same value as 10 pennies and a nickel has the same value as 5 pennies. How many pennies will Grace have by exchanging her 10 dimes and 10 nickels?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: Grace will have 10 x 10 = 100 pennies from her dimes. She will have 10 x 5 = 50 pennies from her nickels. Therefore, she will have a total of 100 + 50 = 150 pennies.
So the answer is 150.

Question: James opens up a flower shop. He needs to pay rent of $1200 a week with an additional 20% of rent to pay for utilities and he has 2 employees per shift with the store open 16 hours a day for 5 days a week. If he pays each employee $12.50 an hour, what are his weekly expenses to run the store?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: He is open 16 * 5 = 80 hours a week. So he pays each of his employees 12.5 * 80 = $1000 per week. Since there are two employees, he pays them in total 2 * $1000 = $2000 per week. The utilities cost 1200 * .2 = $240. So his total cost per week is 1200 + 2000 + 240 = $3440.
So the answer is 3440.

Question: Mehki is 10 years older than Jordyn. Jordyn's age is double Zrinka's age. If Zrinka is 6 years old, how many years old is Mehki?
Answer:
Step-by-step reasoning process: Zrinka = 6 years. Jordyn = 2 * 6 = 12 years. Mehki = 12 + 10 = 22 years. Mehki is 22 years old.
So the answer is 22.