Reasoning and answer: He buys them for 12 * .75 = $9. He sells them for 12 * 1.5 = $18. So he makes 18 - 9 = $9 per day. That means he makes 9 * 7 = $63 per week.
The answer: 63
What was the question?
Question: Bob orders a dozen muffins a day for $0.75 each and sells them for $1.5 each. How much profit does he make a week?


Janessa starts with 4 cards + 13 cards = 17 cards. She adds 17 cards + 36 cards = 53 cards from the eBay purchase. Janessa decides to throw away 53 cards - 4 cards = 49 cards due to damage. After giving Dexter the present we know that Janessa kept 49 cards - 29 cards = 20 cards for herself.
The answer: 20
Reverse engineering the question: Janessa has a plan to give her brother Dexter his first collection of baseball cards. She currently has 4 cards in addition to the 13 that her father gave her. She ordered a collection of 36 cards from eBay. After inspecting the cards she found 4 cards are in bad shape and decides to throw them away. Janessa ended up giving Dexter 29 cards. How many cards did Janessa keep for herself?


Reasoning and answer: John was 39 - 3 = 36 years old 3 years ago. So that means in 6 years James will be 36 / 2 = 18 years old. So right now James is 18 - 6 = 12 years old. So James's older brother is 12 + 4 = 16 years old.
The answer: 16
What was the question?
Question: John has just turned 39. 3 years ago, he was twice as old as James will be in 6 years. If James' older brother is 4 years older than James, how old is James' older brother?


First find the total amount of money she saved: $260 - $50 = $210. Then divide that number by the number of months she saved to find the amount she saved each month: $210 / 3 months = $70 / month.
The answer: 70
Reverse engineering the question: Miranda wants to buy a pair of heels she saw online. She saved money for 3 months. Her sister heard that she was sad and gave her $50 for her to buy the heels. If she paid $260 in total for the heels, how much money did she save per month?


Reasoning and answer: Regina has 4 pigs / cow * 20 cows = 80 pigs. She could sell the pigs for 80 pigs * $400 / pig = $32000. For the cows Regina would get 20 cows * $800 / cow = $16000. In total Regina would earn $16000 + $32000 = $48000.
The answer: 48000
What was the question?
Question: Regina has a farm with animals. She has 20 cows and four times more pigs. Someone told her, that she could sell all the animals and earn $400 for each pig and $800 for each cow. How much money would she earn if she would sell all the animals from the farm?


Reasoning and answer: He gets 12 * 5000 = $60000 for the first 12 hours. For the next 14 hours, he gets 5000 * .2 = $1000 more per hour. So he gets 5000 + 1000 = $6000 per hour. So he gets 6000 * 14 = $84000. So in total, he makes 84000 + 60000 = $144,000.
The answer: 144000
What was the question?
Question:
John runs a telethon to raise money. For the first 12 hours, he generates $5000 per hour. The remaining 14 hours, he generates 20% more per hour. How much total money does he make?