Reasoning and answer: Twice the age of 6 is 6 x 2 = 12 years old. At 12 years old, Mandy was reading books 5 x 8 = 40 pages long. 8 years later, Mandy was 12 + 8 = 20 years old. At 20 years old, Mandy was reading books 3 x 40 = 120 pages long. Presently, she reads books that are 120 x 4 = 480 pages long.
The answer: 480
What was the question?
Question: Mandy started reading books with only 8 pages when she was 6 years old. By the time she was twice that age, she was reading books 5 times longer, and 8 years later, she was reading books 3 times longer than that. Presently, she reads books that are 4 times the previous length. How many pages do the books she reads now have?
Bob runs .1 miles per minute because 6 / 60 = .1. Jim run at .15 miles per minute 9 / 60 = .15. We know that .1(Number of Minutes) + 1 = .15(Number of Minutes). Therefore 1 = .05(Number of minutes). Therefore (Number of minutes) = 20 because 1 / .05 = 20.
The answer: 20
Reverse engineering the question: Bob runs 6 miles per hour. His friend Jim runs at 9 miles per hour. If Bob has a 1 mile head-start, how many minutes will it take before Jim catches him?
Reasoning and answer: If Alice has 60 pens, Clara 2 / 5 * 60 = 24 pens. The number of pens that Alice has more than Clara is 60 - 24 = 36. Since Alice is 20, and the number of pens that Alice has more than Clara is their age difference, Clara is 20 + 36 = 56 years old. In five years, Clara's age will be 56 + 5 = 61 years.
The answer: 61
What was the question?
Question: The difference in the number of pens that Alice and Clara each have matches their age difference. Alice has 60 pens and Clara has 2/5 times as many pens as Alice. If Alice's age is 20 and Clara is older than Alice, calculate Clara's age in 5 years to come.
She strength trains 3 * 1 = 3 hours a week. She does boxing training 4 * 1.5 = 6 hours a week. So she trains a total of 3 + 6 = 9 hours a week.
The answer: 9
Reverse engineering the question: Kat decides she wants to start a boxing career. She gets a gym membership and spends 1 hour in the gym 3 times a week doing strength training. She also trained at the boxing gym 4 times a week for 1.5 hours. How many hours a week does she train?
Reasoning and answer: At 7 days a week, it takes Bert 2 * 7 = 14 days of daily crossword puzzles to use up a pencil. Since Bert does one puzzle a day, each crossword puzzle has 1050 / 14 = 75 words.
The answer: 75
What was the question?
Question: Bert fills out the daily crossword puzzle in the newspaper every day. He uses up a pencil to fill out the puzzles every two weeks. On average, it takes him 1050 words to use up a pencil. How many words are in each crossword puzzle on average?
Reasoning and answer: On weekdays it earns $600 / weekday * 5 weekdays = $3000. During the weekend it earns twice as much each day so it makes ($600 * 2) / weekend day * 2 weekend days = $2400. Every week it earns $3000 + $2400 = $5400. By the end of the month, it earns $5400 / week * 4 weeks = $21600.
The answer: 21600
What was the question?
Question:
An Italian restaurant earns $600 every weekday and twice as much on the weekend. How much money does it earn by the end of the month?