[Question]: Jerome has 20 classmates on his cell phone contact list. He has half as many out of school friends as classmates on his contact list. He also has his two parents and his sister on his contact list. How many people are on Jerome's contact list?
[Answer]: Jerome has 20 classmates on the list, and has half as many out of school friends on there so he has 20 / 2 = 10 out of school friends on the contact list. He has 2 parents and 1 sister on the contact list, for 2 + 1 = 3 family members on the contact list. Adding the classmates, out of school friends and family members together we get 20 + 10 + 3 = 33 people on his contact list.
So the answer is 33.

[Question]: Sean has 4 dollars more than half as much money as Fritz. Rick has 3 times as much money as Sean. If Fritz has 40 dollars, how much money do Rick and Sean have?
[Answer]: Sean has 40 / 2 + 4 = 24 dollars. Rick has 24 * 3 = 72 dollars. Sean and Rick have 24 + 72 = 96 dollars together.
So the answer is 96.

[Question]: Brandon has been fired from half the businesses in town and has quit from a third of them. If there are 72 business in town, how many businesses can he still apply to?
[Answer]:
First divide the total number of businesses by 2 to find how many businesses Brandon hasn't been fired from: 72 businesses / 2 = 36 businesses. Then divide the total number of businesses by 3 to find how many businesses Brandon quit from: 72 businesses / 3 = 24 businesses. Then subtract that number from the number of businesses he hasn't been fired from to find the number of businesses where he can still apply: 36 businesses - 24 businesses = 12 businesses.
So the answer is 12.