Question: Bill is a painter who is hired to paint a client’s house. The house has three bedrooms, and twice as many other rooms as bedrooms. The client wants each bedroom painted a different color, and the other rooms painted white. Each room takes 2 gallons of paint. Color paint comes in 1-gallon paint cans, and white paint comes in 3-gallon cans. How many cans of paint will Bill need for the whole house?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: Bill needs 2 * 3 = 6 gallons of color paint for the 3 bedrooms. Thus, he needs 6 / 1 = 6 cans of color paint for the bedrooms. There are 2 * 3 = 6 other rooms in the house. He needs 2 * 6 = 12 gallons of white paint for the other rooms. Thus, he needs 12 / 3 = 4 cans of white paint. In all, Bill needs 4 + 6 = 10 cans of paint for the whole house.
So the answer is 10.

Question: Bogan laid out 10 maggots for her pet beetle. The beetle only ate 1 and Bogan had to throw out the rest. Later that day, she tried feeding again and the beetle ate 3. If Bogan served 20 maggots in total, how many did she attempt to feed the beetle the second time?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: Bogan served a total of 20 maggots. Bogan gave the beetles 10 maggots in the first feeding. Bogan gave the beetles 20 - 10 = 10 maggots in the second feeding.
So the answer is 10.

Question: The teachers divided the group of students into 3 groups of 8. But 2 students left early. How many remain?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: There were initially 3 * 8 = 24. Now there are 24 - 2 = 22.
So the answer is 22.

Question: For every 5 people that attend a poetry class, the teacher gives one of the students a lollipop. If 45 people show up for class, then another 15 come in a while later, how many lollipops did the teacher give away?
Answer:
Step-by-step reasoning process: The teacher has 45 + 15 = 60 people come in total. For every 5 people, a lollipop is given away so there are 60 / 5 = 12 groups of 5 people and 12 lollipops given away.
So the answer is 12.