conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Solve the following math problem: Stephanie is decorating 24 cupcakes for a birthday party, but she needs more candles. She currently has a total of 30 candles. She wants to decorate half of the cupcakes with 1 candle each and the other half of the cupcakes with 2 candles each. How many additional candles does Stephanie need to complete the cupcakes?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: For half of the cupcakes, Stephanie wants to use 1 candle each. Since half of the cupcakes is 24/2 and she plans to use 1 candle each for this half of the cupcakes, Stephanie needs (24/2)*1 = 12 candles for this half of the cupcakes.
  For the other half of the cupcakes, Stephanie wants to use 2 candles. Therefore, she will need (24/2)*2 =24 candles for this half of the cupcakes.
  Because Stephanie needs 12 candles for half of the cupcakes and 24 candles for the other half, she needs a total of 12+24=36 candles.
  Since Stephanie needs 36 candles to decorate all the cupcakes and she currently has 30 candles, Stephanie needs 36-30= 6 additional candles.