The adult pigs ate 3 / 5 * 300 = 180 straws. The total number of straws that the piglets shared is 300 - 180 = 120. Since there were 20 piglets, each piglet ate 120 / 20 = 6 straws.
The answer: 6
Reverse engineering the question: Troy had 300 straws. He fed 3/5 of the straws to the adult pigs and an equal number of straws to the piglets. If there were 20 piglets, how many straws did each piglet eat?


Reasoning and answer: He has to work off $100 - $40 = $60. So he has to work $60 / 15 = 4 hours.
The answer: 4
What was the question?
Question: Jake agrees to work part of his debt off. He owed someone $100 but paid them $40 before agreeing to work off the rest.  He worked for $15 an hour. How many hours did he have to work?


They made 100 / .25 = 400 tacos. Each taco gives a profit of 2 - 1.5 = $.5. So they made a profit of 400 * .5 = $200.
The answer: 200
Reverse engineering the question: A taco truck buys 100 pounds of beef. They use .25 pounds of beef per taco. If they sell each taco for $2 and each taco takes $1.5 to make how much profit did they make if they used all the beef?


Reasoning and answer: Let X be the amount of money Sarah has, so Bridget has X + 50 cents. We know that Sarah and Bridget combined have $3, or 300 cents, so X + X + 50 = 300. We therefore know that 2X = 250. So Sarah has 250 / 2 = 125 cents.
The answer: 125
What was the question?
Question: Bridge and Sarah have $3 between them. If Bridget has 50 cents more than Sarah, how many cents does Sarah have?


Angel restaurant makes 2 * 200 = 400 fruit salads. The total number of fruit salads made in the two restaurants is 200 + 400 = 600.
The answer: 600
Reverse engineering the question: Angel has a tasty fruit salad restaurant making twice the number of fruit salads made by her friend Alaya's tasty fruit salad restaurant. Alaya's restaurant has 200 fruit salads. How many fruit salads are there in total in the two restaurants?


Each employee needs $35,000 - $20,000 = $15,000 more per year. In total, Emily needs to pay $15,000 * 10 = $150,000 extra. Emily will need to have a new salary of $1,000,000 - $150,000 = $850,000 per year.
The answer: 850000
Reverse engineering the question:
Emily makes $1,000,000 per year. If she has 10 employees who make $20,000 per year, how much would her salary be if she took part of her salary to make sure all of her employees make $35,000 per year.