Let's practice our strategy on another story problem.
 

            The math instructor liked his class so much that one day he surprised them
            by buying pizza for all 15 students and 5 tutors.  Everyone got 2 slices and
            three tutors got knocked to the floor fighting over the remaining 2 slices.
            If the generous, good-hearted instructor purchased 6 identical large pizzas,
            into how many slices was each cut?

Remember, the goal is not just to solve a problem. 
You're learning a different way of approaching
story problems that may make future story problems
a piece of cake-- or pizza, as the case may be.

So go ahead and read the problem a couple times
until you have a mental picture of what’s going on.

If anyone is handy, you could try explaining the story
to a friend in your own words. Don't worry about all
the numbers, just get a sense of what's going on.

If you actually wrote down what you were telling
your friend, we'd call that a paraphrase.  Why don't
you click the pizza and see how I paraphrased the story.