Question: Toby is making toast and adding peanut butter to it. He wants to make sure he has 500 calories for breakfast. A piece of bread has 100 calories. A serving of peanut butter has 200 calories. If he has one piece of bread, how many servings of peanut butter should he add?
Answer with step-by-step thinking: He needs 400 calories worth of peanut butter because 500 - 100 = 400. He needs 2 servings of peanut butter because 400 / 200 = 2.
So the answer is 2.


Question: Mary brought 50 stickers to class. She gave 4 stickers to each of her 5 friends. She gave everyone else in class two stickers each. If she has 8 stickers left over, how many students are in the class, including Mary?
Answer with step-by-step thinking: She gave out 50 - 8 = 42 stickers in total. She gave 4 * 5 = 20 stickers to her friends. She gave out 42 - 20 = 22 stickers to the rest of the class. This means there are 22 / 2 = 11 other students in the class. There are a total of 1 + 5 + 11 = 17 students in the class.
So the answer is 17.


Question: A retail store wants to hire 50 new phone reps to assist with the increased call volume that they will experience over the holiday. Each phone rep will work 8 hours a day and will be paid $14.00 an hour. After 5 days, how much will the company pay all 50 new employees?
Answer with step-by-step thinking:
There are 50 reps and they will work 8 hour days so that's 50 * 8 = 400 hours. They will work 5 days a week so that's 5 * 400 = 2,000 hours. Each worker will be paid $14.00 an hour and in 5 days they will have worked 2,000 hours so that's 14 * 2000 = $28,000.
So the answer is 28000.