[Question]Mark is running for an election and wins 70% of the votes in an area with 100,000 voters. He got twice as many total votes in the remaining area. How many votes did he get in total?
[Answer]He got 100,000 * .7 = 70,000 votes from the first area. He got 70,000 * 2 = 140,000 votes in the remaining areas. So in total he got 140,000 + 70,000 = 210,000 votes. The answer is 210000.

[Question]John has just turned 39. 3 years ago, he was twice as old as James will be in 6 years. If James' older brother is 4 years older than James, how old is James' older brother?
[Answer]John was 39 - 3 = 36 years old 3 years ago. So that means in 6 years James will be 36 / 2 = 18 years old. So right now James is 18 - 6 = 12 years old. So James's older brother is 12 + 4 = 16 years old. The answer is 16.

[Question]There are 56 pieces of fruit in a box. One-fourth of the box contains oranges. There are half as many peaches as oranges and five times as many apples as peaches. How many apples are in the box?
[Answer]Oranges = 56 * 1 / 4 = 14 oranges. Peaches = half of oranges = 14 / 2 = 7 peaches. Apples = 5 * peaches = 5 * 7 = 35. There are 35 apples in the box. The answer is 35.

[Question]Pete walks backwards three times faster than Susan walks forwards, and Tracy does one-handed cartwheels twice as fast as Susan walks forwards. But Pete can walk on his hands only one quarter the speed that Tracy can do cartwheels. If Pete walks on his hands at 2 miles per hour, how fast can Pete walk backwards, in miles per hour?
[Answer]
If Pete walks on hands at 1 / 4 what Tracy can do 1 - handed cartwheels, then Tracy can do 1 - handed cartwheels at 2 * 4 = 8 miles per hour. Since Tracy does 1 - handed cartwheels twice the rate of Susan's forward walking, then Susan walks at 8 / 2 = 4 miles per hour. Pete walks backwards 3x faster than Susan walks forward, and thus Pete walks backwards at 4 * 3 = 12 miles per hour. The answer is 12.