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All right S math shmoop er's or whoever you are

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Jackie goes to the grocery store to buy snacks for

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a girl scout wannabe party She purchases twelve boxes of

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cookies each of which contains ten cookies Jackie wants to

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distribute as many of these cookies as possible to the

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twenty three people who will be at her party If

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each person is given the same number of cookies how

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many cookies will be left over All right this should

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not be hard Are the cookies on ly knockoff girl

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scout cookies or they like you know the real deal

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It's important for knowing if jackie's going to make the

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cut here like you know who knew the girl scouts

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were such an exclusive club right Movement on first calculate

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the total number of cookies that jackie bought right She

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came home with a whopping twelve boxes ten cookies each

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So basic nullification they're one hundred twenty cookies total Then

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she wants to divide those hundred twenty cookies equally among

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twenty three people unfortunately or fortunately depending on who gets

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the leftovers one hundred twenty cookies just not divide evenly

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into twenty three people So we just divide twenty three

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into one twenty and we get five Very multiply that

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out We got a hundred fifteen We subtracted from the

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one twenty there Think it's us five Well the remainder

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of five cookies means that after each guest eats five

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jackson has five extra left All right we're done man

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through see

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