Can someone help with this?? The queen, with her pedantic demeanor, was shocked to find out that several very brilliant girls remained in the location, each with a slice of cake and then squared them up. Being very bold, they multiplied the slices of cakes by two. Realizing that there were many, they subtracted twelve times those that were. The girls that started with their slices of cake were happy, and there are thirty-two of them now.