[Question]: Daliah picked up 17.5 pounds of garbage. Dewei picked up 2 pounds less than Daliah. Zane picked up 4 times as many pounds of garbage as Dewei. How many pounds of garbage did Zane pick up?
[Answer]: Daliah = 17.5 pounds. Dewei + 17.5 - 2 = 15.5 pounds. Zane = 4 * 15.5 = 62 pounds. Zane picked up 62 pounds of garbage.
So the answer is 62.

[Question]: Rebecca makes her own earrings out of buttons, magnets, and gemstones. For every earring, she uses two magnets, half as many buttons as magnets, and three times as many gemstones as buttons. If Rebecca wants to make 4 sets of earrings, how many gemstones will she need?
[Answer]: Four sets of earrings is 2 * 4 = 8 earrings. Since for one earring, she uses two magnets, for eight earrings she uses 2 * 8 = 16 magnets. Since she uses half as many buttons as magnets, then for 8 earrings she would use 16 / 2 = 8 buttons. Since she uses three times as many gemstones as buttons, then in 8 earrings, she will use 8 * 3 = 24 gemstones.
So the answer is 24.

[Question]: At A.T. Cross Luxury Pens, a pencil sells at twenty-five cents while a pen sells at fifteen cents. Bowen buys 40 pens and 2/5 times more pencils than pens from A.T. Cross Luxury Pens. Calculate the total amount of money Bowen spends.
[Answer]:
Bowen bought 2 / 5 * 40 pens = 16 more pencils than pens. The total number of pencils that he bought is 40 pencils + 16 pencils = 56 pencils. If each pencil costs twenty - five cents, the total amount of money he spent on pencils is 56 pencils * $0.25 / pencil = $14. On pens, Bowen spent $0.15 / pen * 40 pens = $6. The total amount of money Bowen spent is $14 + $6 = $20.
So the answer is 20.