Question: Mark goes into the store to buy some groceries. He buys 6 2$ cans of soup, 2 $5 loaves of bread, 2 3$ boxes of cereal, and 2 $4 gallons of milk. When he gets to the register, he opens his wallet to pay and realizes he only has $10 bills in there. How many $10 bills does he need to use to pay?
Answer: Mark buys 6 $2 cans of soup, meaning he spends 6 * 2 = 12 dollars on soup. Mark buys 2 $5 loaves of bread, meaning he spends 2 * 5 = 10 dollars on bread. Mark buys 2 $3 boxes of cereal, meaning he spends 2 * 3 = 6 dollars on cereal. Mark buys 2 $4 gallons of milk, meaning he spends 2 * 4 = 8 dollars on milk. All added together, this means Mark spends 12 + 10 + 6 + 8 = 36 dollars. Since Mark only has $10 bills, he spends 36 / 10 = 3.6 tens on it, which rounds up to 4 as you cannot spend .6 of an undividable item. The answer is 4.

Question: The cost of building a certain house in an area is 100,000 more than the construction cost of each of the houses in the area. But it sells for 1.5 times as much as the other houses, which sell at $320,000 each. How much more profit is made by spending the extra money to build?
Answer: The house cost 320,000 * 1.5 = $480,000. So it is worth 480,000 - 320,000 = $160,000 more than other houses. So the profit is 160,000 - 100,000 = $60,000 more. The answer is 60000.

Question: The largest animal to have ever lived on earth is the blue whale. The tongue of an adult blue whale can weigh 6000 pounds. If one ton is 2000 pounds, how many tons can the tongue of an adult blue whale weigh?
Answer: 1000 pounds more than 5ooo pounds is 6000 pounds. If one ton is 2000 pounds, then the tongue of a blue whale weighs 6000 / 2000 = 3 tons. The answer is 3.

Question: Anne is drawing pictures. She has 12 markers and she notices that each one lasts for about 1.5 drawings. If she has already made 8 drawings, how many more can she make before she runs out of markers?
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She can make 18 drawings in total because 12 x 1.5 = 18. She can make ten more because 18 - 8 = 10. The answer is 10.