Come up with a question and reasoning that would justify this answer: 4
Question and rationale: The question is: Carson is going to spend 4 hours at a carnival. The wait for the roller coaster is 30 minutes, the wait for the tilt-a-whirl is 60 minutes, and the wait for the giant slide is 15 minutes. If Carson rides the roller coaster 4 times and the tilt-a-whirl once, how many times can he ride the giant slide? (Wait times include the time actually spent on the ride.)
Step-by-step reasoning process: First figure out how many minutes Carson spends at the carnival by multiplying the number of hours he's there by the number of minutes per hour: 4 hours * 60 minutes / hour = 240 minutes. Then figure out how long Carson spends waiting for the roller coaster by multiplying the wait time per ride by the number of rides: 4 rides * 30 minutes / ride = 120 minutes. Now subtract the time Carson spends on the roller coaster and tilt - a - whirl from the total time he spends at the park to find out how much time he has left: 240 minutes - 120 minutes - 60 minutes = 60 minutes. Now divide the time Carson has left by the wait time for the giant slide to see how many times he can ride it: 60 minutes / 15 minutes / ride = 4 rides.

Come up with a question and reasoning that would justify this answer: 19
Question and rationale: The question is: Russel and Jen went to the circus. Jen played a shooting game twice, while Russel rode the carousel three times. If the shooting game costs 5 tickets and the carousel costs 3 tickets. How many tickets did they use?
Step-by-step reasoning process: Jen used 5 x 2 = 10 tickets in the shooting game. Russel used 3 x 3 = 9 tickets in the carousel. Therefore, they used 10 + 9 = 19 tickets in all.

Come up with a question and reasoning that would justify this answer: 18
Question and rationale: The question is: Annie is a mother of 3 children: Mark, Matt, and Mike. She decided to give them some fruits. Mike received 3 oranges. Matt got twice as many apples, and Mark got as many bananas as Mike and Matt received fruits altogether. How many fruits do the three children have in total?
Step-by-step reasoning process: Mike received 3 oranges. Matt received twice as many apples as Mike received oranges, so he got 3 * 2 = 6 apples. Mark received 6 + 3 = 9 bananas. So in total, all children received 3 + 6 + 9 = 18 fruits.

Come up with a question and reasoning that would justify this answer: 54
Question and rationale:
The question is: Nancy is filling an aquarium for her fish. She fills it halfway and goes to answer the door. While she's gone, her cat knocks the aquarium over and spills half the water in it. Then Nancy comes back and triples the amount of water in the aquarium. If the aquarium is 4 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 3 feet high, how many cubic feet of water are in the aquarium?
Step-by-step reasoning process: First calculate the volume of the aquarium by multiplying its length, width and height: 4 ft * 6 ft * 3 ft = 72 cubic ft. Then figure out what proportion of the aquarium is full after the cat knocks it over: 1 / 2 * 1 / 2 = 1 / 4. Then figure out what proportion of the aquarium is full after Nancy refills it: 3 * 1 / 4 = 3 / 4. Now multiply the proportion of the aquarium that's full by the aquarium's volume to find out how much water is in it: 72 cubic ft * 3 / 4 = 54 cubic ft.