[Question]Ignatius owns 4 bicycles. A friend of his owns different types of cycles, which have three times are many tires as Ignatius's bikes have. He has one unicycle, a tricycle, and the rest are bikes. How many bicycles does the friend own?
[Answer]Ignatius has 8 tires because 2 x 4 = 8. His friend has 24 tires because 3 x 8 = 24. There are 20 bicycle wheels because 24 - 1 - 3 = 20. He has 10 bicycles because 20 / 2 = 10. The answer is 10.

[Question]Tony has a piece of quilt that is 6 feet by 24 feet. If he wants to turn it into a square and use all the fabric, how long is each side of the square?
[Answer]The quilt is 144 square feet because 6 x 24 = 144. A square quilt would be 12 feet per side because √(144) = 12. The answer is 12.

[Question]It took an alligator named Paul 4 hours to walk from his home at the River Nile to the Nile Delta. On the return journey, Paul traveled with six other alligators, the journey taking 2 more hours than Paul took to walk to the Nile Delta, to reach their home at the River Nile. What's the combined time the alligators walked?
[Answer]If on the return journey to its home, the alligator took 2 more hours than it took to travel to the Nile Delta, Paul took 4 + 2 = 6 hours to travel back to its home. The total time Paul took to travel from its home to the Nile Delta and back is 6 + 4 = 10. On his return journey, Paul traveled with six other alligators, and since each alligator traveled for six hours up the Nile to their home, they took a total of 6 * 6 = 36 hours to do so. Together with Paul, all the alligators took 10 + 36 = 46 hours traveling between Nile Delta and up the Nile. The answer is 46.

[Question]A class of 12 students was about to share 108 oranges equally among themselves when it was discovered that 36 of the oranges were bad and had to be thrown away. How many oranges less will each student get now than if no orange had to be thrown away?
[Answer]
If the 12 students had shared the 108 oranges, each student would have gotten 108 / 12 = 9 oranges. But 36 were removed so there are 108 - 36 = 72 oranges left. So 12 shared 72 for each to get 72 / 12 = 6 oranges. This is 9 - 6 = 3 less than they would each get if they did not have to throw any orange away. The answer is 3.