Question: Melissa wants to make some dresses to sell at the upcoming festival. She has 56 square meters of fabric to make them. She knows that each dress takes 4 square meters of fabric and 3 hours to make. How many hours does she have to work?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: Each dress takes 4 square meters of fabric to make, so the number of dresses she can make will be 56 / 4 = 14 dresses. Each dress takes 3 hours to make, thus she will have to work 14 dresses x 3 hours / dress = 42 hours.
So the answer is 42.

Question: Tom and Tim both brought 4, six-sided dice to school. How many total sides are there?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: There are 8 total dice because 4 plus 4 equals 8. There are 48 sides because 8 times six equals 48.
So the answer is 48.

Question: Tickets to the school play cost $6 for students and $8 for adults. If 20 students and 12 adults bought tickets, how many dollars' worth of tickets were sold?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: The students bought $6 * 20 = $120 worth of tickets. The adults bought $8 * 12 = $96 worth of tickets. Together $120 + $96 = $216 worth of tickets were sold.
So the answer is 216.

Question: Yvonne swims 10 laps in 5 minutes. Her younger sister can swim half as many laps as Yvonne in the same time frame. Their brother Joel can swim three times the number of laps as the youngest sister. How many laps can Joel swim?
Answer:
Step-by-step reasoning process: Yvonne swims 10 laps in 5 minutes and her younger sister swims half as many laps in 5 minutes so she swims 10 / 2 = 5 laps in 5 minutes. Joel can swim 3 times the amount of his youngest sister's 5 laps so he can swim 3 * 5 = 15 laps in 5 minutes.
So the answer is 15.