Talia first drives 5 miles to the park + 3 miles from the park to the grocery store = 8 miles. She next drives 8 miles from the store to home + the first 8 miles = 16 miles Talia drives that day.
The answer: 16
Reverse engineering the question: Talia is playing football with her friends. The park they're playing at is 5 miles from Talia's house. After their game, Talia is planning to go to the grocery store 3 miles away from the park and 8 miles from her home. Starting and ending at Talia's house, how many miles does Talia drive that day?

If a task takes two hours to complete and Briar works for ten hours a day, he manages to complete 10 / 2 = five tasks a day. Since each task pays him $40, for the five tasks, he makes $40 * 5 = $200. If he works for a whole week, he makes $200 * 7 = $1400.
The answer: 1400
Reverse engineering the question: Jerry works as an independent contractor for a company that pays him $40 per task. If each task takes him two hours to complete and he works 10 hours a day for a whole week, calculate the total amount of money he would earn at the end of the week.

She needs 60 ounces of food because 30 / .5 = 60. She needs 4 jars of food because 60 / 15 = 4. It will cost $8 to feed them because 4 x 2 = 8.
The answer: 8
Reverse engineering the question: Sylvie is feeding her turtles. Each turtle needs 1 ounce of food per 1/2 pound of body weight. She has 30 pounds of turtles. Each jar of food contains 15 ounces and costs $2. How much does it cost to feed the turtles?

A red ticket is equal to 10 blue tickets, and a yellow is equal to ten red tickets, so a yellow ticket is also equal to 10 * 10 = 100 blue tickets. It takes 10 yellow tickets to win a Bible, or 10 * 100 = 1000 blue tickets. Tom has 8 yellow tickets, which are worth 8 * 100 = 800 blue tickets. He also has 3 red tickets, which are worth 3 * 10 = 30 blue tickets. Added with his 7 blue tickets, he has 800 + 30 + 7 = 837 blue tickets' worth of tickets. So he still needs to earn 1000 - 837 = 163 blue tickets.
The answer: 163
Reverse engineering the question:
To win a brand new Bible at Tom Sawyer's Sunday school, a pupil has to win 10 yellow tickets; each yellow ticket is obtained by trading in 10 red tickets; each red ticket is obtained by trading in 10 blue tickets; and blue tickets are earned by memorizing two Bible verses. But rather than go to all that trouble, Tom Sawyer has traded various toys and treasures of his with his friends until he has gathered 8 yellow, 3 red, and 7 blue tickets. How many more blue tickets would he need to earn to win a new Bible?