First find the cost of one pair of ballet slippers: $60 * 2 / 3 = $40. Then find the total cost of the ballet slippers: $40 / pair * 5 pairs = $200. Then add that amount to the cost of the high heels to find the total cost: $200 + $60 = $260.
The answer: 260
Reverse engineering the question: Fern buys one pair of high heels for $60 and five pairs of ballet slippers for 2/3rds of the price of the high heels. How much does she pay total?


Reasoning and answer: Darcy still has to fold 20 - 12 = 8 shirts. Darcy still has to fold 8 - 5 = 3 shorts. Darcy has to fold a total of 8 + 3 = 11 pieces of clothing.
The answer: 11
What was the question?
Question: Darcy washes and drys 20 shirts and 8 pairs of shorts. If he folds 12 of the shirts and 5 of the shorts, how many more remaining pieces of clothing does Darcy have to fold?


Tyson scored three points fifteen times, which would be 3 * 15 = 45 points. He also scored two points twelve times, which would give him a score of 2 * 12 = 24. So Tyson scored 75 - 45 - 24 = 6 points, by one point each.
The answer: 6
Reverse engineering the question: Tyson played basketball on the schoolyard. He scored three points fifteen times, and two points twelve times. He also scored one point some number of times. How many times did he score one point, if in total he scored 75 points?


Reasoning and answer: Johannes was able to sell $30 / $2 = 15 kilograms last Wednesday. He was able to sell $24 / $2 = 12 kilograms last Friday. And he was able to sell $42 / $2 = 21 kilograms today. Therefore, Johannes was able to sell is 15 + 12 + 21 = 48 kilograms of cabbage.
The answer: 48
What was the question?
Question: Johannes owns a vegetable shop, he sells cabbage for $2 per kilogram. If Johannes was able to earn $30 last Wednesday, $24 last Friday, and $42 today, how many kilograms of cabbage was he able to sell?


Initially, the were 180 / / 3 = 60 plums on the plum tree. When Damien picked 3 / 5 of the apples from the apple tree, he picked 3 / 5 * 180 = 108 apples. The number of apples remaining on the apple tree is 180 - 108 = 72. The number of plums that Damien picked from the plum tree is 3 / 5 * 60 = 36. The number of plums remaining on the plum tree is 60 - 36 = 24. The total number of fruits remaining on the trees is 72 apples + 24 plums = 96.
The answer: 96
Reverse engineering the question: An apple tree has three times as many apples as the number of plums on a plum tree. If Damien picks 3/5 of the fruits from the trees, calculate the total number of plums and apples remaining on the tree if there were 180 apples on the apple tree before Damien picked any of the fruits.


The total ratio for the number of cats and dogs that Heloise has is 10 + 17 = 27. From the ratios, the fraction representing the number of dogs is 10 / 27, and this represents 10 / 27 * 189 = 70 dogs. If Heloise gives 10 of her dogs to Janet, she remains with 70 - 10 = 60 dogs.
The answer: 60
Reverse engineering the question:
Heloise has dogs and cats in the ratio of 10:17, with the total number of pets being 189. If she gives 10 dogs to her friend Janet, how many dogs does she remain with altogether?