Question: 3 cloves of garlic can repel 2 vampires, 8 vampire bats or 3 wights. How many cloves of garlic are needed to repel 30 vampires, 12 wights and 40 vampire bats?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: First find the total number of cloves needed to repel the vampires: 30 vampires * 3 cloves / 2 vampires = 45 cloves. Then find the total number of cloves needed to repel the wights: 12 wights * 3 cloves / 3 wights = 12 cloves. Then find the total number of cloves needed to repel the vampire bats: 40 vampire bats * 3 cloves / 8 vampire bats = 15 cloves. Then add up these three amounts to find the total number of cloves needed: 45 cloves + 12 cloves + 15 cloves = 72 cloves.
So the answer is 72.

Question: In a certain country store, there are three kinds of bottled drinks. A cola, which costs $3, a juice for $1.5, and water for $1 per bottle. One day the store was able to sell 15 bottles of cola, 25 bottles of water, and 12 bottles of juice. How much did the shop earn?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: 15 bottles of cola is a cost of 15 * 3 = $45. 12 bottles of juice make up to 12 * 1.5 = $18. As each of the 25 sold water bottles was $1, the shop made a total of 45 + 18 + 25 = $88.
So the answer is 88.

Question: 3000 bees hatch from the queen's eggs every day. If a queen loses 900 bees every day, how many total bees are in the hive (including the queen) at the end of 7 days if at the beginning the queen had 12500 bees?
Answer: Step-by-step reasoning process: 3000 new bees are born every day. In 7 days there will be 3000 * 7 = 21000 new bees. If each day the queen loses 900 bees, in 7 days there will be 900 * 7 = 6300 fewer bees. If at the beginning the queen had 12500 bees, then at the end of 7 days she will have 12500 + 21000 - 6300 = 27200 bees. The total number of bees in the hive including the queen is 27200 + 1 = 27201.
So the answer is 27201.

Question: A volcano erupts and spews ash into the sky. The ash cloud spreads out in a diameter eighteen times as far as the distance it shot up into the sky. If the ashes erupted three hundred feet into the sky, what was the radius of the ash cloud in feet?
Answer:
Step-by-step reasoning process: The ash cloud spread out 300 * 18 = 5400 feet in diameter. The radius is half the diameter, so the ash cloud had a radius of 5400 / 2 = 2700 feet.
So the answer is 2700.