Reasoning and answer: Patty: 12 / 3 = 4 hours. Rachel: 5 + 2(4) = 13 hours.
The answer: 13
What was the question?
Question: Matt can paint a house in 12 hours. Patty can paint the same house in one third the time. Rachel can paint the same house in 5 more than double the amount of hours as Patty. How long will it take Rachel to paint the house?


Every day, Sanya can wash 7 x 2 = 14 bath towels. To wash all the towels, she will need 98 / 14 = 7 days.
The answer: 7
Reverse engineering the question: Sanya can wash 7 bath towels in one wash, which will take 1 hour. She only has 2 hours in a day to do this task. If she has 98 bath towels, how many days will she need to wash all of them?


Reasoning and answer: A jar of almond butter costs 3 * 3 = $9. It takes half a jar to make a batch of cookies, so it costs 9 / 2 = $4.50 to use almond butter. It costs 3 / 2 = $1.50 to use peanut butter. Thus, it costs 4.50 - 1.50 = $3 more to make a batch of almond butter cookies than peanut butter cookies.
The answer: 3
What was the question?
Question: Nancy wanted to make peanut butter cookies for a family gathering, but her cousin is allergic to peanuts. She decided to make almond butter cookies instead. A jar of almond butter costs three times the amount that a jar of peanut butter does. It takes half a jar to make a batch of cookies. A jar of peanut butter costs $3. How many dollars more does it cost per batch to make almond butter cookies instead of peanut butter cookies?


The boat had 20 - 3 = 17 sheep make it to shore. 3 sheep drowned, so 2 * 3 = 6 cows drowned. 10 cows on the boat - 6 drowned = 4 cows made it to the shore. 17 sheep + 4 cows + 14 dogs = 35 animals made it to shore.
The answer: 35
Reverse engineering the question: A boat carrying 20 sheep, 10 cows and 14 dogs capsized. 3 of the sheep drowned. Twice as many cows drowned as did sheep. All of the dogs made it to shore. How many total animals made it to the shore?


Reasoning and answer: Fred spent $236 - $14 = $222 on books. The cost per book is $222 / 6 books = $37.
The answer: 37
What was the question?
Question: Fred had 236 dollars to spend on 6 books. After buying them, he had 14 dollars. On average, how much did each book cost?


Reasoning and answer: Let M be the number of hours Bryan spends on marketing posts. He spends 4 / 2 = 2 hours on advertisement posts a day. He works M + 4 + 2 = 8 hours a day. Thus, Bryan spends M = 8 - 4 - 2 = 2 hours on marketing posts each day.
The answer: 2
What was the question?
Question:

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Bryan works as a social media account manager. He does marketing posts, advertisement posts, and customer outreach posts. His client has him spend four hours on customer outreach posts and half that time on advertisement posts each day. Bryan works eight hours a day. How much time in hours each day does he spend on marketing posts?