### Instruction: 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? Please write a program to solve it.### Response: # define the initial number of cans
initial_cans = 12
# calculate the remaining cans
remaining_cans = initial_cans // 2 - 3
# print the result
print(remaining_cans)