The five boxes have a total of 5 x 8 = 40 bags of balloons. So, there are 40 x 12 = 480 balloons.
The answer: 480
Reverse engineering the question: A party store ordered 5 boxes of balloons. Each box contains 8 bags of balloons, and there are 12 balloons in each bag. How many balloons are there?


Reasoning and answer: The nachos cost was 16 / 2 = $8. So in total George paid 8 + 16 = $24 during the whole visit.
The answer: 24
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Question: George went to a movie theater to see a movie. He paid $16 for the ticket and decided to buy some nachos. The nachos were half the price of the ticket. How much did George pay in total for the visit to the movie theater?


First find Janet's total earnings from the exterminator work: $70 / hour * 20 hours = $1400. Then find the total number of pounds of sculpture she sells: 5 pounds + 7 pounds = 12 pounds. Then find her total earnings from the sculptures: 12 pounds * $20 / pound = $240. Then add that amount to the amount she makes as an exterminator to find her total earnings: $240 + $1400 = $1640.
The answer: 1640
Reverse engineering the question: Janet works as an exterminator and she also sells molten metal casts of fire ant nests on the Internet. Janet gets paid $70 an hour for exterminator work and makes $20/pound on her ant nest sculptures. If she does 20 hours of exterminator work and sells a 5-pound sculpture and a 7-pound sculpture, how much money does she make?


Reasoning and answer: The total dollar amount of Nike's sold is 8 * $60 = $480. The total dollar amount of Adidas's sold is 6 * $45 = $270. The total dollar amount of Reebok's sold is 9 * $35 = $315. The total dollar amount that Alice sold was $480 + $270 + $315 = $1065. Therefore, she sold above her goal by $1065 - $1000 = $65.
The answer: 65
What was the question?
Question: Alice needs to sell $1000 of shoes to meet her quota. Adidas cost $45, Nike cost $60, and Reeboks cost $35. If she sells 8 Nikes, 6 Adidas's, and 9 Reeboks, how much is she short or above her goal?


Teresa has 49 pencils because 14 + 35 = 49. Teresa gives away 39 pencils because 49 - 10 = 39. Each sibling gets 13 pencils because 39 / 3 = 13.
The answer: 13
Reverse engineering the question: Teresa is collecting pencils. She has 14 colored pencils and 35 black pencils. Her three younger siblings need pencils for class and their dad asks her to share all her pencils, giving each an equal number of pencils, regardless of color. He tells her she can keep 10 of them for herself. How many pencils does each sibling get?


In the first field, there are 13 rows * 4 corn cobs / row = 52 corn cobs. In the second field, there are 16 rows * 4 corn cobs / row = 64 corn cobs. So the farm has grown a total of 52 corn cobs + 64 corn cobs = 116 corn cobs.
The answer: 116
Reverse engineering the question:

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A farm is growing corn in 2 fields. One of the fields has 13 full rows of corn cobs, and the other field has 16 full rows of corn cobs. If each row contains 4 corn cobs, how many corn cobs has the farm grown?