Every day she buys $3.75 latte and $3.50 croissant for a total of 3.75 + 3.50 = $7.25 per day. If she spends $7.25 a day for 7 days she will spend 7.25 * 7 = $50.75 in one week. If she buys 5 cookies at $1.25 each she will spend 5 * 1.25 = $6.25. Her gift card is for $100 and she spends $50.75 and an additional $6.25 that will leave her with 100 - 50.75 - 6.25 = $43.00 on her gift card.
The answer: 43
Reverse engineering the question: Claire won a $100 gift card to her favorite coffee shop. She wants to treat herself to a latte that cost $3.75 and a croissant for $3.50 every morning for a week. She also plans to buy 5 cookies that cost $1.25 each. How much money will be left on her card after a week of coffee and pastry?


Reasoning and answer: Let X be the original price of the shoes. The discounted price is X - X * 75% = 0.25 * X = $51. The original price of the shirt was X = $51 * 4 = $204.
The answer: 204
What was the question?
Question: I bought a pair of shoes for $51. The shoes were already marked 75% off. What is the original price of the shoes?


If Ernie's income is 4 / 5 of what it used to be, she is earning 4 / 5 * $6000 = $4800 now. Jack's income is now twice what Ernie used to make a total of 2 * $6000 = $12000. Combined, Ernie and Jack are making $12000 + $4800 = $16800.
The answer: 16800
Reverse engineering the question: Ernie's income is 4/5 of what it used to be and Jack's income is now twice what Ernie used to make. How much do they earn combined if Ernie used to make $6000?


Reasoning and answer: To determine the number of ducks at North Pond, we must first perform 100 * 2 = 200 to find the number to add 6 ducks to. We then take this number and add 6 to it, performing 200 + 6 = 206 ducks in total at North Pond.
The answer: 206
What was the question?
Question: Six more than twice as many ducks go to North Pond as go to Lake Michigan. If Lake Michigan has 100 ducks, how many ducks can you safely estimate there will be at North Pond?


He picked 14 + 6 = 20 bags of apples. He picked 9 - 5 = 4 bags of pears. He picked 20 + 4 = 24 bags of fruit in total.
The answer: 24
Reverse engineering the question: Dallas and Austin went to the pick-your-own orchard. Dallas picked 14 bags of apples and 9 bags of pears. Austin picked 6 bags of apples more than Dallas, and 5 fewer bags of pears than Dallas. How many bags of fruit did Austin pick, in total?


First find the age gap between the older brother and sister by subtracting the earlier birth year from the later: 1936 - 1932 = 4 years. Then double the age gap to find how many years passed between the sister's birth and the grandmother's: 4 years * 2 = 8 years. Then add 8 years to the older sister's birth year to find the grandmother's birth year: 1936 + 8 = 1944.
The answer: 1944
Reverse engineering the question:
Connie is trying to remember when her grandmother was born. She knows her grandmother's older brother was born in 1932, her older sister was born in 1936, and the gap between her grandmother and her sister is twice the gap between the older brother and the older sister. What year was Connie's grandma born?