Question: Gertrude the chicken has 10 fleas. The other chicken, Maud has 5 times the amount of fleas as Olive. The final chicken, Olive has half the amount of flees as Gertrude. How many fleas are there?
Answer with step-by-step thinking: Gertrude has 10 fleas and Olive has half that amount so Olive has 10 / 2 = 5 fleas. Maud has 5 times the amount of fleas as Olive who has 5 fleas so Maud has 5 * 5 = 25 fleas. Gertrude has 10 fleas, Maud has 25 fleas and Olive has 5 for a total of 10 + 25 + 5 = 40 fleas.
So the answer is 40.


Question: Boris has 100 pieces of Halloween candy. His daughter eats 8 pieces of candy. He separates the remaining pieces of candy into equal portions into 4 different bowls. Then he takes away 3 pieces of candy from each bowl to keep for himself. How many pieces of candy are in one bowl?
Answer with step-by-step thinking: After his daughter eats some candy, Boris has 100 - 8 = 92 pieces of candy. In one bowl, there are 92 / 4 = 23 pieces of candy. After Boris takes some candy for himself, there are 23 - 3 = 20 pieces of candy in one bowl.
So the answer is 20.


Question: Aubrie has four cards with the labels W, X, Y, Z printed on them. W is tagged with the number 200, X is tagged with half the number W is tagged with, Y is tagged with the total of X and W's tags and Z is tagged with the number 400. Calculate the total of all the tagged numbers.
Answer with step-by-step thinking:
If the card with the letter X has half the number the card with letter W has, it has 1 / 2 * 200 = 100. Together, cards with letters W and X have tags that total 100 + 200 = 300. If the card with the letter Y has the total of the numbers cards with letters, W and X have, then the total for cards with letters W, X, and Y is 300 + 300 = 600. Since the card with the letter Z has a tag of 200, the total of the numbers the tags have is 600 + 400 = 1000.
So the answer is 1000.