[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]: 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.

[Question]: Anthony and his friend Leonel read about the importance of keeping pets at home and decided to start adopting cats and dogs from the local rescue center. Anthony has 12 cats and dogs, 2/3 of which are cats. Leonel has half times as many cats as Anthony and seven more dogs than Anthony. How many animals in total do the two have?
[Answer]: If Anthony has 12 pets, the number of cats is 2 / 3 * 12 pets = 8 cats. The number of dogs that Anthony have is 12 pets - 8 cats = 4 dogs. Leonel has 1 / 2 * 8 cats = 4 cats. If Leonel has seven more dogs than Anthony, then he has 4 dogs + 7 dogs = 11 dogs. The total number of pets the two have is 11 dogs for Leonel + 4 cats for Leonel + 4 dogs for Anthony + 8 cats for Anthony = 27.
So the answer is 27.

[Question]: Marcus has received a commission for as many paintings as possible. Marcus plans out his drawings so that his client can receive some of the paintings as soon as possible but it is still going to take a long time. On the first day, he paints 2 paintings. He then paints every day and each day, he paints twice as many paintings as he painted the day before. If he paints for 5 days, how many paintings will he have painted in total?
[Answer]:
If Marcus creates 2 paintings on the first day, then he can paint 2 paintings * 2 = 4 paintings on the 2nd day. So he paints 4 paintings * 2 = 8 paintings on the 3rd day. He then paints 8 paintings * 2 = 16 paintings on the 4th day. And finally paints 16 paintings * 2 = 32 paintings on the 5th day. Marcus therefore has painted a total of 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 32 = 62 paintings.
So the answer is 62.