Reasoning and answer: In total, the lollipops needed 5ml of food colouring * 100 lollipops = 500ml of food colouring. This means that the hard candies needed 600ml total food colouring 500ml food colouring for lollipops = 100ml of food colouring. So each hard candy needed 100ml of food colouring / 5 hard candies = 20 ml of food colouring.
The answer: 20
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Question: A candy store uses food colouring in various candies. Each lollipop uses 5ml of food colouring, and each hard candy also needs food colouring. In one day, the candy store makes 100 lollipops and 5 hard candies. They do not use food colouring in anything else. The store has used 600ml of food colouring by the end of the day. How much food colouring, in millilitres, does each hard candy need?
Each day they will make 80 $5 = $400. They will make $400 5 = $2000 in 5 days.
The answer: 2000
Reverse engineering the question: Super Clean Car Wash Company cleans 80 cars per day. They make $5 per car washed. How much money will they make in 5 days?
Reasoning and answer: Tom has 3 * 12 = 36 stickers. Dan has 2 * 36 = 72 stickers.
The answer: 72
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Question: Dan has two times as many stickers as Tom. Tom has 3 times as many stickers as Bob. If Bob has 12 stickers, how many does Dan have?
He spent $26 because 87 - 61 = 26. He spend $21 on cheese because 26 - 5 = 21. He bought 3 pounds of cheese because 21 / 7 = 3.
The answer: 3
Reverse engineering the question: Tony has $87. He needs to buy some cheese, which costs $7 a pound and a pound of beef that costs $5 a pound. After buying the beef and his cheese, he has $61 left. How many pounds of cheese did he buy?
Reasoning and answer: Mark has 50 / 100 * 6 = 3 points more than Eric. So Mark has 6 + 3 = 9 points. That means Samanta has 9 + 8 = 17 points. So in total Samanta, Mark, and Eric have 6 + 9 + 17 = 32 points.
The answer: 32
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Question: In a game, Samanta has 8 more points than Mark, and Mark has 50% more points than Eric. Eric has 6 points. How many points do Samanta, Mark, and Eric have in total?
Reasoning and answer: Brian sold houses for 157,000 + 499,000 + 125,000 = $781,000 in total. Brian's commission was 781,000 * 0.02 = $15,620.
The answer: 15620
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Question:
Brian is a real estate agent. He makes a 2% commission on each sale. During June, he sold three houses. The houses sold for $157,000, $499,000, and $125,000. What was Brian's total commission on these three sales?