Late at night, in a castle far away, the king could not sleep. so he got up and at 1/4 of the mangoes from a bowl in the kitchen. the queen got up and ate 1/3 of the mangoes that were left. the prince at 1/2 of the mangoes that the queen did not eat. there were 12 mangoes left in the bowl when she was done. how many mangoes were in the bowl at the beginning?

Five dinosaurs go for a walk and come across some lovely chicken wings. their names are rexy, bronto, steggy, paly, and terry. there are exactly 5 dozen wings(equal enough for each dino to have a dozen right? ); however, terry is on a diet and he only eats 6 wings. if paly eats 2 more than terry, steggy eats 4 more than paly, and bronto and rexy eat the same amount because they are really hungry from not eating all day, how many chicken wings did each dino eat?

Apublic library wants to place 4 magazines and 9 books on each display shelf. the expression 4s+9s represents the total number of items that will be displayed on s shelves. simplify the expression

Runner ran 1 4/5 miles on monday and 6 3/10 on tuesday. how many times her monday’s distance was her tuesdays distance