Come up with a question and reasoning that would justify [42] as the answer.
The question is: Punger collects baseball cards. He buys 60 packs of baseball cards. Each pack has 7 cards inside. He wants to put these cards in special pages to protect the cards. Each page can hold 10 cards. How many pages does he need to buy?
Reasoning: 60 packs of cards * 7 cards per pack = 420 cards. 420 cards / 10 cards per page = 42 pages.

Come up with a question and reasoning that would justify [38] as the answer.
The question is: The difference between the ages of two friends is 2 years. The sum of their ages is 74 years. Find the age of the older friend.
Reasoning: Let X be the age of the older friend. The younger friend is X - 2 years old. So, the age of both is X + (X - 2) = 74. X + X = 74 + 2. 2 * X = 76. Then, the older friend is X = 38 years old.

Come up with a question and reasoning that would justify [45] as the answer.
The question is: Every morning, Carla puts 79 apples in her backpack to eat for lunch. Unfortunately, Buffy stole some of Carla's apples on the school bus, and 26 apples fell out of a hole on the bottom. So at lunchtime, Carla only had 8 apples remaining. How many apples did Buffy steal from Carla?
Reasoning: Let B be the number of apples that Buffy stole. Then 79 - B - 26 = 8. Combining constants produces 53 - B = 8. Adding B to both sides produces 52 = B + 8. Thus the number of apples stolen by Buffy is B = 53 - 8 = 45.