Q: A store owner buys clothes wholesale and adds 80% to the wholesale price to set the retail price. The retail price of a pair of pants is $36. What is the wholesale price?
A: Let X be the wholesale price. The retail price of a pair of pants is X + X * 80% = $36. Thus 1.8 * X = $36. Thus X = $36 / 1.8 = $20. The answer is 20.

Q: Paige bought some new stickers and wanted to share them with 3 of her friends. She decided to share a sheet of 100 space stickers and a sheet of 50 cat stickers equally among her 3 friends. How many stickers will she have left?
A: Paige has 100 space stickers that she is dividing among 3 friends, so 100 stickers / 3 friends = 33 stickers for each friend, with 1 remaining. She also has 50 cat stickers that she is diving among 3 friends, so 50 stickers / 3 friends = 16 stickers for each friend, with 2 remaining. So Paige will have 1 remaining space sticker + 2 remaining cat stickers = 3 stickers left. The answer is 3.

Q: In one month in the Smith house, Kylie uses 3 bath towels, her 2 daughters use a total of 6 bath towels, and her husband uses a total of 3 bath towels. If the washing machine can fit 4 bath towels for one load of laundry, how many loads of laundry will the Smiths need to do to clean all of their used towels?
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The total number of bath towels used in one month is 3 + 6 + 3 = 12 bath towels. The number of loads of laundry the Smiths need to do is 12 / 4 = 3 loads. The answer is 3.