Harly's animal shelter has 80 dogs. She adopts out 40% of them but then has to take back 5 because of personality conflicts with other dogs in their adopted homes. How many dogs does she have now?
Thoughts? Step-by-step reasoning:
First find how many dogs are adopted out: 80 dogs * 40% = 32 dogs. Then subtract the number of dogs adopted out from the total number of dogs and add the number who were returned to find the final number of dogs: 80 dogs - 32 dogs + 5 dogs = 53 dogs.
Thus, the answer is 53.