Reasoning and answer: Let X be the number of children the adult can take with her. She has $35, so she could buy one ticket for her and the rest for the children. So she has $35 - $8 = $27 left for children. She could take $27 / $3 / child = 9 children with her.
The answer: 9
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Question: A movie ticket for an adult costs $8, and a child's ticket costs $3. One adult is taking a group of children to the movies. She has $35. How many children can she take with her to the movies?
Alice will get $2500 x 2 / 100 = $50 from her commission. This month, she will receive a total of $240 + $50 = $290. Therefore, Alice will save $290 x 10 / 100 = $29 for this month.
The answer: 29
Reverse engineering the question: Alice was able to sell $2500 worth of gadgets. For this month, she expects to receive her monthly basic salary of $240 and a 2% commission from these sales. How much is she going to save this month if she usually saves 10% of her total earnings?
Reasoning and answer: To have an average speed of 70 mph over 5 hours he needs to travel 70 * 5 = 350 miles. He drove 60 * 3 = 180 miles in the first 3 hours. He needs to travel another 350 - 180 = 170 miles over the next 2 hours. His speed needs to be 170 / 2 = 85 mph.
The answer: 85
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Question: A man drives 60 mph for 3 hours. How fast would he have to drive over the next 2 hours to get an average speed of 70 mph?
The bottles are 1.5 * 32 = 48 ounces. So he drinks 48 * 2 = 96 ounces from the bottles. So in total he drank 96 + 20 = 116 ounces a day. 116 * 7 = 812 ounces a week.
The answer: 812
Reverse engineering the question: Tim drinks 2 bottles that are each 1.5 quarts and an additional 20 ounces a day. How much water does he drink a week?
Reasoning and answer: 1 roll can wrap 5 shirt boxes and he has 20 shirts boxes to wrap so he needs 20 / 5 = 4 rolls of wrap. 1 roll can wrap 3 XL boxes and he has 12 XL boxes to wrap so he needs 12 / 3 = 4 rolls or wrap. All total he needs 4 + 4 = 8 rolls of wrap. Each roll costs $4.00 and he needs 8 rolls so it will cost him 4 * 8 = $32.00 in wrapping paper.
The answer: 32
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Question: Harold's fancy wrapping paper can wrap 5 shirt boxes or 3 XL boxes. For the upcoming holiday, he has 20 shirt boxes to wrap and 12 XL boxes to wrap. If each roll of wrapping paper costs $4.00 per roll, how much will he spend to wrap all of the boxes?
Reasoning and answer: Arthur is 2 years older than Susan, so he is 15 + 2 = 17 years old. Bob is 11 years old, so Tom is 11 - 3 = 8 years old. So in total these four family members have 11 + 15 + 17 + 8 = 51 years.
The answer: 51
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Question:
Susan, Arthur, Tom and, Bob are siblings. Arthur is 2 years older than Susan, and Tom is 3 years younger than Bob. If Bob is 11 years old, and Susan is 15 years old, how old are all four family members in total?