Answer the following question.
Darren bought 4 boxes of crackers. Each box contained 24 crackers. If Calvin bought one box less than twice as many boxes of crackers as Darren, how many crackers did they buy altogether?
Step-by-step reasoning process: If Darren bought 4 boxes of crackers, each containing 24 crackers, the total number of crackers that Darren bought is 24 * 4 = 96. Twice as many boxes of crackers as Darren bought is 2 * 4 = 8. If Calvin bought one box less than twice as many boxes of crackers as Darren, then Calvin bought 8 - 1 = 7 boxes of crackers. The total number of crackers that Calvin bought is 7 * 24 = 168. Together, Darren and Clavin bought 168 + 96 = 264 crackers.
The answer is 264.

Answer the following question.
A cheetah can run at a top speed of 60 mph. The gazelle can run for speeds of up to 40 miles per hour. If one mile per hour is about 1.5 feet per second, then how many seconds would it take for a cheetah traveling at top speed to catch up to a fleeing gazelle also running at top speed if the two animals were initially 210 feet apart and they both traveled in the same direction?
Step-by-step reasoning process: 60 mph is 60 * 1.5 = 90 feet per second. 40 mph is 40 * 1.5 = 60 feet per second. Thus, for every second, the cheetah advances on the gazelle by 90 - 60 = 30 feet per second. To close on a distance of 200 feet, it would take the cheetah 210 / 30 = 7 seconds to catch the gazelle.
The answer is 7.

Answer the following question.
For every one dozen flowers bought, a customer gets 2 free flowers. If Maria wants to buy 3 dozens flowers, how many pieces of flowers will she have in all?
Step-by-step reasoning process: Maria has 3 x 2 = 6 free flowers from buying 3 dozens flowers. Since each dozen is equal to 12, then Maria bought 3 x 12 = 36 flowers. Hence, she has a total of 36 + 6 = 42 flowers.
The answer is 42.

Answer the following question.
Next year, there will be twice as many people going to the fair as are going this year, and the number of people who went to the fair last year was 200 less than those going next year. If the number of people going to the fair this year is 600, calculate the number of people at the fair in the three years.

Show your work and conclude with the exact phrasing "Therefore, the final answer is [answer]." where [answer] is just the final number or expression that solves the problem.
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Step-by-step reasoning process: If there are 600 people at the fair this year, the number going to the fair next year is 2 * 600 = 1200. The number of people at the fair this year and the ones going next year totals 1200 + 600 = 1800. The number of people who went to that fair last year was 200 less than those going next year, meaning there were 1200 - 200 = 1000 people at the fair last year. In the three years, the number of people at the fair will be 1800 of this and next year + 1000 of last year = 2800.
The answer is 2800.