The boys baked a total of 3 x 12 = 36 muffins. The girls baked a total of 2 x 20 = 40 muffins. Hence, there are a total of 36 + 40 = 76 muffins that will be for sale.
The answer: 76
Reverse engineering the question: If 3 boys each make 12 muffins for a bake sale, and 2 other girls are making 20 muffins each, how many total muffins will be for sale?


Reasoning and answer: Each brick wall needs 30 x 50 = 1500 bricks. Thus, the two walls need 1500 x 2 = 3000 bricks.
The answer: 3000
What was the question?
Question: Two brick walls are being built. Each wall has 30 bricks in a single row and there are 50 rows in each wall. How many bricks will be used to make both walls?


The pizza costs $10 and the first topping, pepperoni costs $2 so right now it costs 10 = 2 = $12.00. The next 2 toppings, sausage and ham, cost $1.00 each so 2 * 1 = $2.00. The remaining toppings, olives, mushrooms, bell peppers and pineapple, cost $0.50 each so they cost 4 * .50 = $2.00. All total, Jimmy's pizza costs 12 + 2 + 2 = $16.00. The pizza is sliced into 8 pieces and the pizza costs $16 so each slice costs 16 / 8 = $2.00 a slice.
The answer: 2
Reverse engineering the question: Jimmy wants to order a pizza at a new place. The large pizza costs $10.00 and is cut into 8 slices. The first topping costs $2.00, the next 2 toppings cost $1.00 each and the rest of the toppings cost $0.50. If he orders a large pizza with pepperoni, sausage, ham, olives, mushrooms, bell peppers and pineapple. How much will his pizza cost per slice?


Reasoning and answer: The total number of bottles containing cider or beer is 40 + 80 = 120. If the number of bottles in the van was 180, then 180 - 120 = 60 contains a mixture of the two drinks. At the first house, the delivery man dropped 1 / 2 * 40 = 20 bottles. There were also 1 / 2 * 80 = 40 bottles of beer that the delivery man gave to the first house. Together, the first house received 40 + 20 = 60 bottles of cider and beer. The total number of bottles that had a mixture of the two drinks that were dropped at the first house is 1 / 2 * 60 = 30. The first house got 60 + 30 = 90 bottles of all types of drinks.
The answer: 90
What was the question?
Question: A van is delivering 180 bottles of drinks to a neighborhood, and each bottle contains either cider or beer or a mixture of two. Out of the 180 bottles, 40 contain only cider, 80 contain only beer, and the rest are a mixture of the two drinks. If the delivery man gives half the number of each bottle of drink to the first house, how many bottles does the first house get?


There are 7 letters in Jessica. There are 4 letters in Tori. There are 4 letters in Lily. There are 7 letters in Patrice. In all this is, 7 + 4 + 4 + 7 = 22 letters and thus 22 bracelets. The total cost is 22 bracelets * $2 = $44.
The answer: 44
Reverse engineering the question: Robin wants to buy jelly bracelets for her friends. She decides to buy one bracelet for each letter of the first name of her friends. Her friends are Jessica, Tori, Lily and Patrice. If each jelly bracelet costs $2, what is the total she will spend in dollars?


The number of cars in the back parking lot was 100 * 2 = 200 times more than those in the front parking lot. There were 200 + 100 = 300 cars in the back parking lot. A total of 300 + 100 = 400 cars were present before the play began. The total number of cars that parked in the theater during the play is 700 - 400 = 300 cars.
The answer: 300
Reverse engineering the question:
Lana and her friends go to a theater on the weekend to watch a new play Joan told them was live. When they arrived, Lana saw 100 cars in the front parking lot. She saw two times more vehicles at the back than there were in the front parking lot. If the total number of cars at the end of the play was 700, how many more cars packed into the parking lot during the play?