Reasoning and answer: She gave away 7 + 5 = 12 chips. Then she kept 22 - 12 = 10.
The answer: 10
What was the question?
Question: Nancy has a bag containing 22 tortilla chips. She gives 7 tortilla chips to her brother and 5 tortilla chips to her sister, keeping the rest for herself. How many did Nancy keep for herself?


First find how many lizards you get for one gallon of water: 3 lizards / 5 gallons = .6 lizards / gallon. Then figure out how many lizards 80 gallons of water is worth: 80 gallons * .6 lizards / gallon = 48 lizards. Then figure out how many bottle caps 48 lizards is worth: 48 lizards * 8 bottle caps / lizard = 384 bottle caps. Then figure out how many bottle caps Marla can save each day by subtracting the number she spends from the number she finds: 20 bottlecaps / day - 4 bottlecaps / day = 16 bottlecaps / day. Finally, divide the number of bottle caps Marla needs by the number she saves each day: 384 bottle caps / 16 bottle caps / day = 24 days.
The answer: 24
Reverse engineering the question: In the post-apocalyptic wasteland, 1 lizard is worth 8 bottle caps, 3 lizards are worth 5 gallons of water, and 1 horse is worth 80 gallons of water. Marla can scavenge for 20 bottle caps each day, but needs to pay 4 bottle caps per night for food and shelter. How many days does it take Marla to collect all the bottlecaps she needs to buy a horse?


Reasoning and answer: It takes Tom 30 * 4 = 120 minutes to climb the hill. It takes Tom 120 / 60 = 2 hours to climb the hill.
The answer: 2
What was the question?
Question: Tom and Elizabeth have a competition to climb a hill. Elizabeth takes 30 minutes to climb the hill. Tom takes four times as long as Elizabeth does to climb the hill. How many hours does it take Tom to climb up the hill?


There are 2 / 3 green crayons * 6 blue crayons = 4 green crayons. The pink crayons left in the box are 24 crayons total - 8 red - 6 blue - 4 green = 6 pink crayons.
The answer: 6
Reverse engineering the question: A crayon box has 24 crayons total. 8 crayons are red, 6 crayons are blue, there are 2/3 the number of green crayons as blue crayons, and the rest of the crayons are pink. How many crayons are pink?


Reasoning and answer: Since each novel has 200 pages, you read 4 * 200 = 800 pages of novels every month. Since a year has 12 months, you will read 800 * 12 = 9600 pages in a year.
The answer: 9600
What was the question?
Question: If I read 4 novels with 200 pages each in a month, how many pages of novels will I read in a year?


Reasoning and answer: The break occurred (12 - 2) / 2 = 5 feet from the top. Then it was 12 - 5 = 7 feet from the base.
The answer: 7
What was the question?
Question:
A flagpole is 12 feet tall. It breaks, folding over in half, such that what was the tip of the flagpole is now dangling two feet above the ground. How far from the base, in feet, did the flagpole break?