Question

Beth bought 5 hats. A week later half of all her hats were destroyed in a fire. There are now only 15 hats left. With how many did she start?

Answer 1

All those hats, and Beth only has one head!. But I digress.

She has 15 hats left. The fire destroyed 1/2 of what she had,, so we now you can deduce the number of hats she had before the fire. How many hats did she have just before the fire???