Reasoning and answer: He uses 11 buckets to fill his bath normally because 14 - 3 = 11. He uses 1, 320 ounces a day for his baths because 11 x 120 = 1,320. He uses 9, 240 ounces a week for his baths because 7 x 1,320 = 9,240.
The answer: 9240
What was the question?
Question: Oliver wonders how much water his bathtub can hold. So he takes a bucket that holds 120 ounces and starts filling the bathtub. When it reaches the top, he sees that he filled it 14 times. Then he wonders how much bathwater he uses, so he starts taking away buckets until it gets to the level he puts it at. He needs to take away 3 buckets to do this. Finally, he wonders how much water he uses in a week for his baths, which he takes every day. How much water does he use each week?


There were 12 / 2 = 6 fallen cakes. Half of 6 fallen cakes were destroyed, for a total of 6 / 2 = 3 cakes.
The answer: 3
Reverse engineering the question: Chastity made 12 angel food cakes to give to friends. She placed the cakes in boxes, and then walked them out to her car. But she had forgotten her keys. So, she placed the boxes of cakes in one stack on the hood of her car, and then she ran back into the house to get her keys. But before she returned, a black crow came, landed on the stack of cakes, and knocked over half of the stack. When Chastity returned, she picked up half of the fallen cakes, which were not damaged, but the rest of the cakes were destroyed. How many cakes were destroyed?


Reasoning and answer: He was stuck in traffic for 5 * 2 = 10 hours. So his trip took 10 + 5 = 15 hours.
The answer: 15
What was the question?
Question: Tim is stuck in traffic for twice as long as he was driving. He drove 5 hours. How long was the trip?


There are 80 cherries in a pound and she needs 3 pounds to make a pie so she needs 80 * 3 = 240 cherries. It takes her 10 minutes to pit a unit of 20 cherries. She has 240 / 20 = 12 units of cherries to pit. It takes 10 minutes to pit a unit of cherries and she has 12 units so it will take her 10 * 12 = 120 minutes. 60 minutes are in 1 hour and it takes her 120 minutes so that’s 120 / 60 = 2 hours.
The answer: 2
Reverse engineering the question: To make a cherry pie, Veronica needs 3 pounds of pitted cherries. There are 80 single cherries in one pound of cherries.  It takes 10 minutes to pit 20 cherries. How many hours will it take Veronica to pit all the cherries?


Reasoning and answer: The second scroll is 4080 + 4080 / 2 = 4000 + 2040 = 6120 years old. The third scroll is 6120 + 6120 / 2 = 6120 + 3060 = 9180 years old. The fourth scroll is 9180 + 9180 / 2 = 9180 + 4590 = 13770 years old. The fifth scroll is 13770 + 13770 / 2 = 13770 + 6885 = 20655 years old.
The answer: 20655
What was the question?
Question: A library cabinet houses five ancient scrolls. The first scroll is 4080 years old. If each scroll is older than the last by half as many years as the last scroll’s age, how old is the fifth scroll?


Reasoning and answer: There are 960 pages because 80 x 12 = 960. Each book is 160 pages because 960 / 6 = 160.
The answer: 160
What was the question?
Question:
Jack has a stack of books that is 12 inches thick. He knows from experience that 80 pages is one inch thick. If he has 6 books, how many pages is each one on average?