<human>:  Coleen loved sprinkles. At the beginning of the day, she had twelve cans of sprinkles. After applying sprinkles to her hair, her clothing and her pets, she had 3 less than half as many cans of sprinkles as she started out with. How many cans of sprinkles remained?
<bot>: How many cans of sprinkles are there? ** Half of twelve cans of sprinkles is 12/2=<<12/2=6>>6 cans.
How many cans of sprinkles remain? ** Three less than half as many cans of sprinkles is 6-3=<<6-3=3>>3 cans of sprinkles.
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