Samuel is arranging his grandma’s teacups. They are stored in boxes and inside the boxes, they are stacked 5 rows high with 4 cups in each row. Of the 26 boxes in her attic, 6 of the boxes contain pans, half of the remaining boxes contain decorations, and the rest of the boxes contain her teacups. Samuel breaks 2 of the cups every time he picks up one of the boxes. By the time Samuel has taken all of the teacups out of the boxes, how many teacups are left?
##Solution## Taking the boxes of pans out of the total attic boxes shows that 26 boxes – 6 boxes of pans = 20 boxes are either decorations or teacups.
Since half of these boxes are decorations, the other half must be made up of 20 boxes / 2 = <<20/2=10>>10 boxes of teacups.
Each box of cups initially has 5 rows x 4 cups = <<5*4=20>>20 teacups inside.
Samuel breaks cups each time he picks up a box, which means each box now contains 20 – 2 = <<20-2=18>>18 teacups.
Therefore, there are 10 boxes * 18 teacups = <<10*18=180>>180 teacups left.
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