Q: Lorin has 4 black marbles. Jimmy has 22 yellow marbles. Alex had twice as many black marbles as Lorin and one half as many yellow marbles as Jimmy. How many marbles does Alex have?
A: Alex has 2 * 4 = 8 black marbles. Alex has 22 / 2 = 11 yellow marbles. Alex has 8 + 11 = 19 marbles. The answer is 19.

Q: A TV show costs $100,000 per episode for the first season and twice that much for every other season. The first season had 12 episodes, and every season after that had 50% more episodes except the last season, which had 24 episodes. The show had 5 seasons. How much did it cost to produce all the episodes?
A: The first season cost 12 * 100,000 = $1,200,000. Season 2 - 4 had 12 * .5 = 6 more episodes per season than the first. So they each had 12 + 6 = 18 episodes. That means there were 18 * 3 + 24 = 78 episodes in the last 4 seasons. So those episodes cost 2 * 100,000 = $200,000. For a total cost of 200,000 * 78 = $15,600,000. So the total cost was 15,600,000 + 1,200,000 = $16,800,000. The answer is 16800000.

Q: Jasmine wants to organize her books in order of most number of pages to least number of pages. Jasmine's longest book has 396 pages and her shortest book has one-fourth as many pages as the longest. If the book in the middle of her shelf has three times the number of pages of the shortest book, then how many pages does the middle book have?
A:
Jasmine's shortest book is 1 / 4 * 396 pages = 99 pages long. The middle book is 3 * 99 pages = 297 pages long. The answer is 297.