Question: John buys 2 dozen cookies. He eats 3. How many cookies does he have left?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: He got 2 * 12 = 24 cookies. So he has 24 - 3 = 21 cookies left.
So the answer is 21.

Question: Jackson is buying chairs for his restaurant. He has 6 tables with 4 seats and 12 tables with 6 seats. How many chairs total does Jackson need to buy?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: First find how many chairs Jackson needs for the four - seat tables by multiplying the number of four - seat tables by 4: 4 chairs / table * 6 tables = 24 chairs. Next find how many chairs Jackson needs for the six - seat tables by multiplying the number of six - seat tables by 6: 6 chairs / table * 12 tables = 72 chairs. Now add the number of chairs for the four - and six - seat tables to find the total number of chairs Jackson needs: 24 chairs + 72 chairs = 96 chairs.
So the answer is 96.

Question: Dani has 3 cats; Binkie, Frankie and Spaatz. Each cat has a collar decorated with gemstones. Binkie has four times as many gemstones on his collar as does Frankie but Spaatz has two less than half as many gemstones on her collar as does Frankie. If Spaatz has 1 Gemstone on her collar, how many gemstones does Binkie have on his collar?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: If Spaatz has 2 less than half the number of gemstones as does Frankie, then half as many as Frankie is 1 + 2 = 3 gemstones. If 3 is half the number of gemstones on Frankie's collar, then Frankie has 3 * 2 = 6 gemstones. If Binkie has 4 times as many gemstones as Frankie, then Binkie has 4 * 6 = 24.
So the answer is 24.

Question: A mother duck as 8 ducklings. The first 3 ducklings find 5 snails each. Another 3 ducklings find 9 snails each, and the remaining ducklings each find half the number of snails that mother duck finds. If mother duck finds tree times the total number of snails as the first 2 groups of ducklings, how many snails does the family of ducks have collectively?
Answer:
Step-by-step reasoning process: The first 3 ducklings find 3 x 5 = 15 snails. The next 3 ducklings find 3 x 9 = 27 snails. They find a total of 15 + 27 = 42 snails. Mother duck finds 42 x 3 = 126 snails. The last group has 8 - 3 - 3 = 2 ducklings. They find 126 / 2 = 63 snails each. The family of ducks found a total of 42 + 126 + 63 + 63 = 294 snails.
So the answer is 294.