Reasoning and answer: Melanie starts with 1 slice of bread that she tears in half, making 2 halves. She takes both of those halves and tears them each in half, 2 halves x 2 more halves in half = 4 pieces per slice of bread. Melanie is using 2 slices of bread x 4 pieces each = 8 pieces overall to add to the blender.
The answer: 8
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Question: Melanie is making meatballs for dinner. The recipe calls for breadcrumbs. To make the breadcrumbs Melanie is going to tear 2 slices of bread into smaller pieces and then add them to a blender to grind them into fine crumbs. First she tears the bread slices each in half, then tears those halves in half. How many bread pieces is Melanie going to put into the blender?


The trip to the supermarket and back home covers 5 + 5 = 10 miles. The round trip of two miles each before he actually went to the farm covers 2 + 2 = 4 miles. Six miles to the farm and the total mileage is 10 + 4 + 6 = 20 miles. The truck consumed 12 - 2 = 10 gallons of gasoline for the total journey. So, the rate is 20 / 10 = 2 miles per gallon.
The answer: 2
Reverse engineering the question: Bobby needed to make some trips with his truck and had only 12 gallons of gasoline. He drives to a supermarket 5 miles away and then drives back home. Then he headed to his farm which was 6 miles away. Two miles into the journey, he turned around and drove back home to retrieve some farming tools he forgot to take earlier and drove down to the farm. If he now has exactly 2 gallons of gasoline left, at what rate in miles per gallon has his truck been consuming gasoline?


Reasoning and answer: Loraine made 12 / 2 = 6 small animals. She made 6 / 3 = 2 large animals. She used 2 * 4 = 8 sticks of wax on large animals. Therefore, Loraine used 12 + 8 = 20 sticks of wax for all the animals.
The answer: 20
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Question: Loraine makes wax sculptures of animals. Large animals take four sticks of wax and small animals take two sticks. She made three times as many small animals as large animals, and she used 12 sticks of wax for small animals. How many sticks of wax did Loraine use to make all the animals?


He got 30 * 25 = 750 planks. So he can make 750 / 15 = 50 tables. That means he makes 50 * 300 = $15000. So his profit was 15000 - 3000 = $12000.
The answer: 12000
Reverse engineering the question: John chops down 30 trees. From each tree, he can make 25 planks. A table takes 15 planks to make and sells for $300. He paid $3000 for all the labor. How much profit did he make?


Reasoning and answer: 1 hour is 60 minutes, so 120 minutes is 120 / 60 = 2 hours. During one hour a fox can make 50 kilometers, so during two hours, he would be able to run 50 * 2 = 100 kilometers.
The answer: 100
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Question: A fox can run at the maximum speed of 50 kilometers per hour. Considering the fox would run at a constant speed, what distance would he make during 120 minutes?


Reasoning and answer: On Tuesday Buddy has 30 / 2 = 15 baseball cards. On Wednesday Buddy has 15 + 12 = 27 baseball cards. On Thursday Buddy buys 15 / 3 = 5 baseball cards. On Thursday Buddy has a total of 27 + 5 = 32 baseball cards.
The answer: 32
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Question:
On Monday Buddy has 30 baseball cards. On Tuesday Buddy loses half of them. On Wednesday Buddy buys 12 baseball cards. On Thursday he buys a third of what he had on Tuesday. How many baseball cards does he have on Thursday?