Question: Felicity and Adhira took separate trips. Felicity used 5 less gallons of gas than four times the number of gallons that Adhira used for her trip. Together the girls used 30 gallons of gas. How many gallons did Felicity use?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: Let A = Adhira's gallons. Felicity = 4A - 5. 5A - 5 = 30. 5A = 35. A = 7. Felicity used 23 gallons of gas for her trip.
So the answer is 23.

Question: Dexter filled 3 fewer plastic boxes with football cards than basketball cards. He filled 9 boxes with basketball cards and each box has 15 cards. For the boxes with football cards, he filled each box with 20 cards. How many cards does Dexter have in total?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: Dexter have 9 x 15 = 135 basketball cards. He filled 9 - 3 = 6 plastic boxes with football cards. So, he has 6 x 20 = 120 football cards. Therefore, Dexter has 135 + 120 = 255 cards in total.
So the answer is 255.

Question: A man used to have 39 cows but last year 25 of them died and he sold 6 of them. This year the number of the cows increased by 24 and the man bought 43 more. His friend gave him 8 cows as a gift. How many cows does the man have now?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: Last year he had 39 cows - 25 cows - 6 cows = 8 cows. This year after the number of the cows has increased he has 8 cows + 24 cows = 32 cows. After he bought more cows he now has 32 cows + 43 cows = 75 cows. After his friend gave him cows he now has 75 cows + 8 cows = 83 cows.
So the answer is 83.

Question: Sue is traveling from New York to San Francisco, 16 hours later after landing in New York from New Orleans. If the journey from New Orleans to New York took 3/4 times as much time as she takes to travel from New York to San Francisco, and she lands in San Francisco 24 hours later after departing from New York, calculate the total time she took to reach San Francisco from New Orleans?
Answer:
Step-by-step reasoning process: To travel from New Orleans to New York, Sue took 3 / 4 * 24 hours = 18 hours. If she stayed in New York for 16 hours, Sue's total time to travel from New Orleans to San Francisco is: 18 hours from New Orleans to New York + 16 hours in New York + 24 hours from New York to San Francisco = 58 hours.
So the answer is 58.