An office needs to buy 5000 / 500 = 10 reams of bond paper. So, it will cost 10 x $27 = $270.
The answer: 270
Reverse engineering the question: A bond paper ream has 500 sheets and costs $27. An office needs 5000 sheets of bond paper. How much will it cost to buy their needed sheets of paper?


Reasoning and answer: If a cow drinks 80 liters of water in a day, it drinks 80 * 7 = 560 liters of water per week. Mr. Reyansh has 40 cows drinking 560 liters of water a week, totaling 560 * 40 = 22400 liters. In the ranch, a sheep drinks 1 / 4 * 80 = 20 liters of water in a day. The total amount of liters a sheep drinks in a week is 20 * 7 = 140 liters. Mr. Reyansh has ten times as many sheep as cows, that is 10 * 40 = 400 sheep. If each sheep drinks 140 liters of water in a week, 400 sheep drinks 400 * 140 = 56000 liters of water. Together, the cows and sheep drink 56000 + 22400 = 78400 liters of water per week.
The answer: 78400
What was the question?
Question: Mr. Reyansh has a dairy farm with 40 cows. Each cow on the farm drinks 80 liters of water daily. He also has a sheep ranch with 10 times the number of cows, with each sheep drinking 1/4 times as much water as a cow does. How many liters of water does Mr. Reyansh use to water all of his animals in a week?


The movie theater made 5 * 32 = $160 in matinee tickets. It made 7 * 40 = $280 in evening tickets. It made 10 * 58 = $580 in opening night tickets. There were 32 + 40 + 58 = 130 customers. Half of the customers bought popcorn, so 130 / 2 = 65 bought popcorn. Thus, the theater made 10 * 65 = $650 from popcorn. Therefore, in all, the theater made 160 + 280 + 580 + 650 = $1670 on Friday night.
The answer: 1670
Reverse engineering the question: A movie theater charges $5 for matinee tickets, $7 for evening tickets, and $10 for opening night tickets. A bucket of popcorn costs $10. On Friday, they had 32 matinee customers, 40 evening customers, and 58 customers for an opening night showing of a movie. If half the customers bought popcorn, how much money in dollars did the theater make on Friday night?


Reasoning and answer: Let X be the number of adults attending the concert. The number of children attending the concert is 3 * X. The theater collected a total of 7 * X + 3 * (3 * X) = $6,000. Multiplying through the parentheses we get 7X + 9X = $6,000. Adding like terms we get 16X = $6,000. Dividing both sides by 16 we get X = 375, the number of adults attending the concert. The number of children attending the concert is triple this number: 375 adults * 3 children / adult = 1125 children. The number of people attending the concert is 375 + 1125 = 1500 people.
The answer: 1500
What was the question?
Question: Three times as many children as adults attend a concert on Saturday. An adult ticket costs $7 and a child's ticket costs $3. The theater collected a total of $6,000. How many people bought tickets?


Since the black dog weighs 1 pound more than the brown dog, the black dog weighs 1 + 4 = 5 pounds. The white dog weighs 4 * 2 = 8 pounds. Because the grey dog weighs 2 pounds less than the black dog, the grey dog weighs 5 - 2 = 3 pounds. The total weight of all dogs is 4 + 5 + 8 + 3 = 20 pounds. The average weight of all the dogs is 20 / 4 = 5 pounds.
The answer: 5
Reverse engineering the question: Terry's mom brought home 4 different colored dogs from the shelter. The brown dog weighs 4 pounds. The black dog weighs 1 pound more than the brown dog. The white dog weighs twice as much as the brown dog. The grey dog weighs 2 pounds less than the black dog. What's the average weight of all the dogs?


The total number of tickets needed is 5 tickets + 4 tickets + 4 tickets = 13 tickets. Jeanne needs 13 tickets - 5 tickets = 8 tickets.
The answer: 8
Reverse engineering the question:
Jeanne wants to ride the Ferris wheel, the roller coaster, and the bumper cars. The Ferris wheel costs 5 tickets, the roller coaster costs 4 tickets and the bumper cars cost 4 tickets. Jeanne has 5 tickets. How many more tickets should Jeanne buy?