Reasoning and answer: First find the total number of donuts Jean eats: 12 pages / 2 pages / donut = 6 donuts. Then multiply that number by the number of calories per donut to find the total number of calories she eats: 6 donuts * 150 calories / donut = 900 calories.
The answer: 900
What was the question?
Question: Jean is trying to motivate herself to write her final paper. She eats one donut per 2 pages that she writes. If she writes 12 pages and each donut has 150 calories, how many calories does she eat?
Rick's oldest brother is 15 years * 2 = 30 years old. This means the middle brother is 30 years / 3 = 10 years old. The smallest brother is therefore 10 years / 2 = 5 years old. So the youngest brother is 5 years 2 years = 3 years old.
The answer: 3
Reverse engineering the question: Rick has just celebrated his 15th birthday. His oldest brother is twice his age, and his middle brother is a third of the oldest brother's age. The smallest brother is half the middle brother's age. If the youngest brother is 2 years younger than the smallest brother, how old, in years, is the youngest brother?
Reasoning and answer: First calculate how much Jenna spends on salaries: $2,500 * 4 = $10,000. Next find Jenna's total fixed costs by adding the cost of salaries and rent: $10,000 + $10,000 = $20,000. Next calculate how much profit Jenna makes on each widget by subtracting the cost from the sale price: $8 - $3 = $5. Now multiply the profit per widget by the number of widgets sold: $5 * 5000 = $25,000. Now subtract Jenna's costs from her sales to find her total profit before taxes: $25,000 - $20,000 = $5,000. Now multiply Jenna's profit by her 20% tax rate to find how much she owe in taxes: $5,000 * .2 = $1,000. Now subtract Jenna's taxes from her profit before taxes to find her total profit: $5,000 - $1,000 = $4,000.
The answer: 4000
What was the question?
Question: Jenna runs a wholesale business. She pays $3 for each widget and resells it for $8. Every month she has to pay $10,000 in rent, 20% of her total profit in taxes, and $2,500 each to four workers. If Jenna sells 5000 widgets one month, how much is her total profit or loss?
Since the hypotenuse of a triangle is found by the square root of the base squared plus the height squared. The square of the base of the first triangle is 4 * 4 = 16 square inches. The square of the height of the first triangle is 3 * 3 = 9 square inches. The sum of the squares of the base and the height of the first triangle is 16 + 9 = 25. The square root of the sum of the base and the height of the first triangle, which is the hypotenuse of the triangle, is 25 = 5 inches. Since the perimeter of a triangle is found by adding the sides of the triangle, the base and height of the triangle sum up to 3 + 4 = 7 inches. If you add the hypotenuse of the triangle the perimeter of the triangle becomes 7 + 5 = 12 inches.
The answer: 12
Reverse engineering the question: Elliott drew a right-angle triangle on his book. It had a base of 4 inches, a height of 3 inches and a certain length of the hypotenuse. What was the length of the perimeter of the triangle that he drew?
Reasoning and answer: Frances has 24 / 4 = 6 towels. They have 24 + 6 = 30 towels. Each towel weighs 60 / 30 = 2 pounds. Frances's towels weigh a total of 2 * 4 = 8 pounds. Frances's towels weigh a total of 8 * 16 = 128 ounces.
The answer: 128
What was the question?
Question: Mary just arrived at the beach. She has 4 times as many towels as Frances does. The total weight of their towels is 60 pounds. If Mary has 24 towels, how much do Frances's towels weigh in ounces?
Reasoning and answer: The number of pages Jane reads in a day is 5 in the morning and 10 in the evening, so she reads 10 + 5 = 15 pages in a day. If she reads for a week she reads for 7 days, so by the end of the week she reads 15 * 7 = 105 pages.
The answer: 105
What was the question?
Question:
Jane plans on reading a novel she borrows from her friend. She reads twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening. In the morning she reads 5 pages and in the evening she reads 10 pages. If she reads at this rate for a week, how many pages will she read?