Reasoning and answer: 40% of champions are men because 100 - 60 = 40. 10 champions have been men because 25 x .4 = 10. 4 champions have been men with beards because 10 x .4 = 4.
The answer: 4
What was the question?
Question: In the last 25 years, 60% of Scrabble champions have been women and the rest have been men. There is one champion per year. Of the men, 40% had a beard. How many men with beards have been Scrabble champion?
Carmen decorates 8 plates with 1 whole sprig of parsley, 8 plates x 1 parsley sprig each = 8 parsley sprigs. She also decorates 12 plates with 1 / 2 a sprig each, 12 x 1 / 2 = 6 parsley sprigs. She started with 25 parsley sprigs and has used 8 + 6 = 14 parsley sprigs. After using 14 parsley sprigs, she has 25 - 14 = 11 sprigs left.
The answer: 11
Reverse engineering the question: Carmen is preparing dinner plates for a row of customers at the counter in a diner. She likes to put a couple of sprigs of parsley on each plate for decoration. However, she is very low on parsley and doesn't have enough to even put 1 sprig on every plate, so she needs to break several of the parsley sprigs in two to make 2 smaller ones to stretch them out. If she decorates 8 plates with one whole parsley sprig and 12 plates with 1/2 a sprig each, how many sprigs of parsley does she have left if she started with 25?
Reasoning and answer: Since there are four clowns at the carousel this year, the candy seller sold 20 * 4 = 80 candies to all the clowns. The thirty children also bought 20 * 30 = 600 candies in total. Altogether, the candy seller sold 600 + 80 = 680 candies to the clowns and children at the carousel. The number of candies the candy seller has left is 700 - 680 = 20.
The answer: 20
What was the question?
Question: Every year, four clowns and thirty children go on a carousel. This year, the candy seller, at the carousel, had 700 candies. The candy seller then sold 20 candies, to each of the clowns and the children, who attended. How many candies did he have left?
The frog eats 2 flies / day * 7 days / week = 14 flies a week. Betty catches flies in the morning and in the afternoon, for a total of 5 flies + 6 flies = 11 flies. But 1 fly escapes, leaving 11 flies - 1 fly = 10 flies. To get her frog's food for the whole week, Betty needs 14 flies - 10 flies = 4 more flies.
The answer: 4
Reverse engineering the question: Flies are Betty's frog's favorite food. Every day the frog eats 2 flies. Betty puts the flies she finds in a bottle. In the morning Betty catches 5 flies inside a bottle, and in the afternoon she catches 6 more, but when she removes the lid, one escapes. Betty wants to gather the whole week's food for her frog. How many more flies does she need?
Reasoning and answer: For every white duck there are 5 fish and there are 3 white ducks for a total of 5 * 3 = 15 fish. For every black duck there are 10 fish and there are 7 black ducks for a total of 10 * 7 = 70 fish. For every multicolored duck there are 12 fish and there are 6 multicolored ducks for a total of 12 * 6 = 72 fish. All total there are 15 + 70 + 72 = 157 fish in the lake.
The answer: 157
What was the question?
Question: For every white duck at the lake there are 5 fish. For every black duck there are 10 fish and for every multicolor duck there are 12 fish. Currently there are 3 white ducks, 7 black ducks and 6 multicolored ducks. How many fish are in the lake?
Reasoning and answer: Elrond was able to get 20 x 2 = 40 tulips. Therefore, the total number of tulips they were able to get is 40 + 20 = 60.
The answer: 60
What was the question?
Question:
Arwen and Elrond picked some flowers. Arwen was able to get 20 tulips and Elrond was able to get twice as many tulips as Arwen did. How many tulips were they able to get in total?