Question: Twelve coworkers go out for lunch together and order three pizzas. Each pizza is cut into eight slices. If each person gets the same number of slices, how many slices will each person get?
Answer: The total number of slices is 3 × 8 = 24. Every one of the colleagues gets 24 / 12 = 2 slices per person. The answer is 2.

Question: The largest animal to have ever lived on earth is the blue whale. The tongue of an adult blue whale can weigh 6000 pounds. If one ton is 2000 pounds, how many tons can the tongue of an adult blue whale weigh?
Answer: 1000 pounds more than 5ooo pounds is 6000 pounds. If one ton is 2000 pounds, then the tongue of a blue whale weighs 6000 / 2000 = 3 tons. The answer is 3.

Question: Adam, Andrew and Ahmed all raise goats. Adam has 7 goats. Andrew has 5 more than twice as many goats as Adam. Ahmed has 6 fewer goats than Andrew. How many goats does Ahmed have?
Answer: Andrew: 5 + 2(7) = 19 goats. Ahmed:19 - 6 = 13 goats. The answer is 13.

Question: A 40 meters rope was cut into 2 parts in the ratio of 2:3. How long is the shorter part?
Answer:
The rope was cut into 2 + 3 = 5 parts. So each part is 40 / 5 = 8 meters long. Since the shorter part is consists of 2 parts, then it is 8 x 2 = 16 meters long. The answer is 16.