Reasoning and answer: First find the total number of blueberries needed for one pie: 200 blueberries / pint * 2 pints / pie = 400 blueberries / pie. Then multiply that number by the number of pie to find the total number of blueberries James need: 400 blueberries / pie * 6 pies = 2400 blueberries.
The answer: 2400
What was the question?
Question: James needs 200 blueberries to make a pint of blueberry jam and then a quart of blueberry jam to make a blueberry pie. If there are two pints per quart, how many blueberries does James need to pick to make 6 pies?


There are 19 cars at the lot, so there are 5 * 19 = 95 wheels of cars. So there are 117 - 95 = 22 wheels of motorcycles in the parking lot. Each motorcycle has 2 wheels, so that leaves us with 22 / 2 = 11 motorcycles in the parking lot.
The answer: 11
Reverse engineering the question: In a parking lot, there are cars and motorcycles. Each car has 5 wheels (including one spare) and each motorcycle has 2 wheels. There are 19 cars in the parking lot. Altogether all vehicles have 117 wheels. How many motorcycles are at the parking lot?


Reasoning and answer: Bess produces 2 pails every day. Brownie produces 3 times as much * 2 = 6 pails every day. Daisy produces 2 + 1 more pail than Bess = 3 pails every day. Bess, Brownie, and Daisy together produce 2 + 6 + 3 = 11 pails every day. A week is 7 days, so Farmer Red gets 11 * 7 = 77 pails each week.
The answer: 77
What was the question?
Question: Farmer Red has three milk cows: Bess, Brownie, and Daisy. Bess, the smallest cow, gives him two pails of milk every day. Brownie, the largest cow, produces three times that amount. Then Daisy makes one pail more than Bess. How many pails of milk does Farmer Red get from them each week?


Marta had 1000 kg of tomatoes on Friday and sold 300 kg on Saturday, so she has 1000 – 300 = 700 kg of tomatoes left. On Sunday 200 kg of tomatoes had to be thrown away, so 700 – 200 = 500 kg of tomatoes were left. The shipment on Monday was twice the size of the first one, so it was 2 * 1000 = 2000 kg of tomatoes. The total amount of tomatoes ready for sale on Tuesday was 500 + 2000 = 2500 kg.
The answer: 2500
Reverse engineering the question: Marta sells tomatoes in a grocery store. On Friday, a shipment of 1000 kg of tomatoes arrived at the store. On Saturday, Marta sold a total of 300 kg of tomatoes to customers. On Sunday, the store was closed, causing 200 kg of tomatoes to rot and to be thrown away. On Monday morning another shipment arrived, twice the size of the first one. How many kilograms of tomatoes did Marta have ready for sale on Tuesday?


Reasoning and answer: Let the number of blind students be x. The number of deaf students will then be 3 * x = 3x students. The total number of students is x + 3x = 180 students. Combining like terms gives 4x = 180. So the value of x is 180 / 4 = 45.
The answer: 45
What was the question?
Question: A special school has a deaf-student population 3 times its blind-student population. If there are 180 students in total, how many blind students are there?


Reasoning and answer: Day 1:50. Day 2:50(2) = 100. Day 3:100 + 20 = 120. Day 4:2(50 + 100 + 120) = 540. Total:50 + 100 + 120 + 540 = 810 eggs.
The answer: 810
What was the question?
Question:
A frog lays her eggs over a series of 4 days. The first day she lays 50 eggs. The second day, she doubles her production of eggs. The third day she lays 20 more than the second day, and the last day she doubles the first three days total. How many eggs did the frog lay over the span of the 4 days?