Reasoning and answer: Kendra made 4 + 5 * 8 = 44. Sue made 44 / 2 = 22.
The answer: 22
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Question: Kendra made 4 more than five times as many decorated buttons as Mari. Sue made half as many as Kendra. Mari made 8 buttons. How many did Sue make?
He rides his bike 6 + 7 = 13 miles to school and back every day. Therefore, Vins rode his bike 13 x 5 = 65 miles to school and back this week.
The answer: 65
Reverse engineering the question: Vins rides his bike 6 miles to school. He rides home a different route that is 7 miles long. This week, Vins rode to school and back 5 times. How many miles did Vins ride his bike this week?
Reasoning and answer: Each of Samara's friends saw an average of 10 alligators each, a total of 3 * 10 = 30 alligators. Together, Samara and her friends saw 30 + 20 = 50 alligators.
The answer: 50
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Question: Samara and three of her friends heard alligators spotted on the local river and decided to join a search organized by the wildlife service to capture the animals. After searching the whole day, Samara had seen 20 alligators while her friends had seen an average of 10 alligators each. Calculate the total number of alligators Samara and her friends saw.
2 pounds of steak will cost Ken 2 * 7 = 14 dollars. Subtracting that amount from $20 will give 20 - 14 = 6 dollars. Ken will therefore get 6 dollars back.
The answer: 6
Reverse engineering the question: At Ken's local store, a pound of steak is going for $7. He decides to get two pounds. At the till, he pays using a $20 bill. How much money will he get back?
Reasoning and answer: He bought 5 * 4 = 20 shirts. The discount saves him 15 * .2 = $3 per shirt. So each shirt cost 15 - 3 = $12. So the total order cost 20 * 12 = $240. Tax added 240 * .1 = $24. So he paid 240 + 24 = $264.
The answer: 264
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Question: Tom decides to buy some shirts from his favorite fandoms because there is a sale on his favorite website. He buys 5 t-shirts from each of his 4 favorite fandoms. The shirts normally cost $15 each but there is a 20% off sale. The order qualified for free shipping but he still needed to pay 10% tax. How much did he pay?
Reasoning and answer: He spent 2 * 2 = 4 years learning to climb. He spends 5 * 7 = 35 months climbing all 7 mountains. After a 13 month break, he starts diving so that is 35 + 13 = 48 months. That means it is 48 / 12 = 4 years. So in total it all took 2 + 4 + 4 + 2 = 12 years.
The answer: 12
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Question:
A man decides to try and do everything off his bucket list while he is still young and fit enough to finish it all. One of his goals was to climb the seven summits. He realizes first he has to get in shape to do it and it takes him 2 years of working out to get healthy enough to take up mountain climbing. He then spends twice that long learning how to be a technically proficient mountain climber. After that he starts with the simplest mountain on the list and climbs them all. He spends 5 months climbing each mountain. After that he takes 13 months learning to dive and dives through all the caves he wants in 2 years. How much time did it take to get through all these goals?