Question: Some students want to buy pencils from a stationery shop. The price of one pencil is 20 cents. Tolu wants 3 pencils, Robert wants 5 pencils and Melissa wants 2 pencils. How much (in dollars) will the students spend altogether at the stationery shop?
Answer with step-by-step thinking: The three students want a total of 3 + 2 + 5 = 10 pencils. Each pencil cost 20 cents so 10 pencils cost 20 * 10 = 200 cents. 100 cents make a dollar so 200 cents make 200 / 100 = 2 dollars.
So the answer is 2.


Question: At a station, a train comes every 5 minutes leaving 200 passengers and taking 320 others. How many different passengers step on and off a train at the station within an hour?
Answer with step-by-step thinking: At every passenger exchange there are 200 + 320 = 520 different people. One hour is 60 minutes, so during one hour, a train comes 60 minutes / hour / 5 minutes / train = 12 times. So during one hour, 12 trains * 520 passengers / train = 6240 different passengers step on and off the train.
So the answer is 6240.


Question: Dallas and Austin went to the pick-your-own orchard. Dallas picked 14 bags of apples and 9 bags of pears. Austin picked 6 bags of apples more than Dallas, and 5 fewer bags of pears than Dallas. How many bags of fruit did Austin pick, in total?
Answer with step-by-step thinking:

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He picked 14 + 6 = 20 bags of apples. He picked 9 - 5 = 4 bags of pears. He picked 20 + 4 = 24 bags of fruit in total.
So the answer is 24.