Question: The fifth grade class at Rosa Parks Elementary School is holding a food drive. Half the students in Ms. Perez's class collected 12 cans each, two students didn't collect any, and the remaining 13 students students each collected 4 cans. If Ms. Perez's class has 30 students, how many cans did they collect total?
Answer with step-by-step thinking: Then find how many students in Ms. Perez's class collected 12 cans each: 30 students / 2 = 15 students. Then find how many cans the students who collected 12 cans each collected in total: 15 students * 12 cans / student = 180 cans. Then find how many cans the students who collected 4 cans each collected in total: 13 students * 4 cans / student = 52 cans. Then add both amounts of cans to find the total: 180 cans + 52 cans = 232 cans.
So the answer is 232.


Question: Daniel works for a sports stadium filling water bottles for athletes. He filled 254 water bottles this season. The football team had 11 players that wanted 6 bottles each. The soccer team had him fill 53 bottles. The lacrosse team needed 12 more bottles than the football team. Each team coach during the season also wanted two bottles apiece. How many bottles did he fill for the rugby team during the final game he worked this season?
Answer with step-by-step thinking: Let R be the number of water bottles Daniel refilled for the rugby team. Daniel filled 11 * 6 = 66 bottles for the football team. He filled 66 + 12 = 78 bottles for the lacrosse team. He got water bottles for four teams, so the team coaches wanted 2 * 4 = 8 bottles. In all, he filled 66 + 53 + 78 + 8 + R = R + 205 = 254 bottles in all. Thus, he filled R = 254 - 205 = 49 bottles for the rugby team this season.
So the answer is 49.


Question: UF got into the national championship. For them to get into the championship, they scored a total of 720 points during their previous 24 games. In the championship game, however, their opponent was much stronger than any other team they had previously gone against and they scored 2 points less than half as much as they had previously scored in each of the 24 games. Their opponent only lost by 2 points. How many points did their opponent score?
Answer with step-by-step thinking:
They scored an average of 720 / 24 = 30 points in their previous games. Half that many would be 30 / 2 = 15 points. So in the finals, they scored 15 - 2 = 13 points. Their opponent thus scored 13 - 2 = 11 points.
So the answer is 11.