Question: Oliver is at the library helping put away books. There are 46 book to put away total but a librarian takes 10 of them and leaves Oliver with the rest. If he can fit 4 books on a shelf, how many shelves will he need? 
Let's think step by step
There are 45 books in total 
The librarian takes 10 of them
So there are 45 - 10 = 35 books left for Oliver
One shelf can take 4 books
So he needs 35 / 4 = 8.75 shelves
Ronding 8.75 to the nearest integer from the larger side is 9
The answer is 9

Question: Robin uploaded 31 pictures from her phone and 5 from her camera to facebook. If she sorted the pics into 9 different albums with the same amount of pics in each album, how many pictures were in each of the albums? 
Let's think step by step
There are 31 pictures from Robin's phone and 5 from her camera
So that is 31 + 5 = 36 pictures in total
there are 9 different albums in total 
so each album contain 36 / 9 = 4 pictures
The answer is 4

Question: Emily was playing a trivia game. In the first round she scored 16 points and in the second round she scored 33 points. In the last round she lost 48 points. How many points did she have at the end of the game? 
Let's think step by step
In the first round she scored 16 points
In the second round she scored 33 points
So the total is 33 + 16 = 49 points
Then she lost 49 points
So the total points now is 49 - 48 = 1 point
The answer is 1

Question: Kaleb started his own lawn mowing business. In the spring he made 4 dollars mowing lawns and in the summer he made 50 dollars. If he had to spend 4 dollars buying supplies, how much money did he end up with? 
Let's think step by step
In the spring he made 4 dollars
In the summer he made 50
So he has 4 + 50 = 54 dollars now 
After spending 4 dollars buying supplies, he has 54 - 4 = 50 dollars
The answer is 50

Question: A store had 48 coloring books in stock. They ended up putting them on sale and getting rid of 38 of them. The put the ones they still had onto shelves with 5 on each shelf. How many shelves did they use? 
Let's think step by step
There are 48 books initially
After the sale, there are 48 - 38 = 10 books 
Each shelf can contain 5 books
So they use 10 / 5 = 2 shelves in total
The answer is 2

Question: Bianca was planting vegetables in her garden. She started with 52 seeds and planted 40 of them in the big garden and in each of her small gardens put 2 seeds each. How many small gardens did Bianca have? 
Let's think step by step
There are 52 seeds in total
She planted 40 of them in the big garden, so there are 52 - 40 = 12 left
Each small gardens contain 2 seeds
So there are 12 / 2 = 6 small gardens 
The answer is 6

Question: Jerry was helping the cafeteria workers pick up lunch trays, but he could only carry 8 trays at a time. If he had to pick up 9 trays from one table and 7 trays from another, how many trips will he make? 
Let's think step by step
There are 9 + 7 = 16 trays in total for Jerry to carry
He could carry 8 trays at a time 
So he needs to make 16 / 8 = 2 trips
The answer is 2

Question: Rachel was organizing her book case making sure each of the shelves had exactly 9 books on it. If she had 6 shelves of mystery books and 2 shelves of picture books, how many books did she have total? 
Let's think step by step
The total number of shelf is 6 + 2 = 8
There are 9 books on each of the shelf
So the total number of book is 8 * 9 = 72
The answer is 72
