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Question 1160530: Is A correct? I want to check my answers.
A student was conducting a study to determine how many mini chocolate chip cookies would fit in a plastic sealed container. He used random packing to find the following.
Using the collected data above what would be a reasonable rough estimate of a ratio of how many cubic inches per cookie?
A. 2.2 in^3/cookie
B. 0.45 in^3/cookie
C. 17.82 in^3/cookie
D. 23.76 in^3/cookie
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Answer by greenestamps(13214)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


1st data point: 11*6*3 = 198 cubic inches, 90 cookies

2nd data point: 6*6*2 = 72 cubic inches, 33 cookies

Rough estimates for both show a little over 2 cubic inches per cookie, so answer A is the only reasonable choice.


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