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RaulStonehouse779 RaulStonehouse779
  • 29-08-2015
  • Mathematics
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Francois baked just enough cookies to fill all the orders at his bakery. While the cookies were cooling, a kitchen assistant knocked over a cooling rack and spilled %12, percent of the cookies onto the floor. Francois had to bake 36 more cookies to replace them. How many cookies were ordered in total?

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JaySL JaySL
  • 29-08-2015

We see that 36 cookies is 12% of the total order, so 36/12=3 is 1% of the order, and so there are 3*100=300 total cookies in the order.

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