Question: The novelty shop on the Starship Conundrum sells magazines and chocolates. The cost of four chocolate bars is equal to the cost of 8 magazines. If one magazine costs $1, how much does a dozen chocolate bars cost, in dollars?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: If one magazine costs $1, then 8 magazines cost 8 * $1 = $8. Let's define "x" as the cost of one chocolate bar. The cost of four chocolate bars is equal to the cost of 8 magazines and 4 * x = $8. Dividing each side by 4, we get the cost of one chocolate bar x = $2. Therefore, a dozen chocolate bars would cost 12 * $2 = $24.
So the answer is 24.

Question: Dana normally drinks a 500 ml bottle of soda each day. Since the 500 ml bottles are currently out of stock at the store, she buys a 2-liter bottle of soda instead. If Dana continues to drink 500 ml of soda each day, how long will the 2-liter bottle of soda last? There are 1,000 ml in 1 liter.
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: There are 2 * 1,000 ml = 2,000 ml in a 2 - liter bottle of soda. A 2 - liter bottle of soda lasts 2,000 / 500 = 4 days.
So the answer is 4.

Question: Gabby planted a watermelon vine, a peach tree, and two plum trees in the spring. Over the summer, the plants grew and produced fruit. She only got one watermelon to grow, but she got twelve more peaches than that, and three times that number of plums. How many pieces of fruit did Gabby get to pick that summer?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: Gabby's peach tree grew 12 + 1 = 13 peaches. Her plum trees grew 13 * 3 = 39 plums. Thus, Gabby got 1 + 13 + 39 = 53 pieces of fruit to pick.
So the answer is 53.

Question: A new movie gets released and makes $120 million in the box office for its opening weekend. It ends up making 3.5 times that much during its entire run. If the production company gets to keep 60%, how much profit did they make if the movie cost $60 million to produce?
Answer:
Step-by-step reasoning process: Over the movies run it made 120 * 3.5 = 420 million. So the production company made 420,000,000 * .6 = $252,000,000. So they got a profit of 252,000,000 - 60,000,000 = $192,000,000.
So the answer is 192000000.