Question: Mabel has 5 daisies in her garden, and each daisy has 8 petals. If she gives 2 daisies to her teacher, how many petals does she have on the remaining daisies in her garden?
Answer: The total number of petals Mabel has in her garden is 5 x 8 = 40 petals. The total number of petals that Mabel gives to her teacher is 2 x 8 = 16 petals. The total number of petals remaining in her garden is 40 - 16 = 24 petals. The answer is 24.

Question: Phillip wants to make pickles with the supplies he finds at home. He has 4 jars, 10 cucumbers, and 100 oz of vinegar. Each cucumber makes six pickles. Each jar can hold 12 pickles. It takes 10 ounces of vinegar per jar of pickles. When he is all done making as many pickles as he has supplies for, how many ounces of vinegar are left?
Answer: The jars allow him to make 48 pickles because 4 x 12 = 48. The cucumbers allow him to make 60 pickles because 10 x 6 = 60. The vinegar allows him to make 10 jars of pickles because 100 / 10 = 10. The vinegar is enough to make 60 pickles because 10 x 6 = 60. He can make 48 pickles because 48 < 60. He needs 4 jars to make this because 48 / 12 = 4. He needs 40 ounces of vinegar because 4 x 10 = 40. He has 60 ounces remaining because 100 - 40 = 60. The answer is 60.

Question: Donna bought 3 times as many pencils as Marcia did. Marcia bought double the number of pencils as Cindi did. How many pencils did Donna and Marcia buy altogether if Cindi spent $30 on $0.50 pencils?
Answer: Cindi bought 30 / 0.50 = 60 pencils. Marcia bought 2 * 60 = 120 pencils. Donna bought 3 * 120 = 360 pencils. Altogether, Donna and Marcia bought 120 + 360 = 480 pencils. The answer is 480.

Question: An archaeologist discovered three dig sites from different periods in one area. The archaeologist dated the first dig site as 352 years more recent than the second dig site. The third dig site was dated 3700 years older than the first dig site. The fourth dig site was twice as old as the third dig site. The archaeologist studied the fourth dig site’s relics and gave the site a date of 8400 BC. What year did the archaeologist date the second dig site?
Answer:
The third dig site was dated from the year 8400 / 2 = 4200 BC. Thus, the first dig site was dated from the year 4200 - 3700 = 500 BC. The second dig site was 352 years older, so it was dated from the year 500 + 352 = 852 BC. The answer is 852.