SOLUTION: sixteen students went on a week-long hiking trip. They bought with them 360 specially baked,protein-rich, cookies. What is the ratio of cookies to students?

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Question 821977: sixteen students went on a week-long hiking trip. They bought with them 360 specially baked,protein-rich, cookies. What is the ratio of cookies to students?
Answer by richwmiller(17219)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
6 of them were bullies and ate 330 and left the 30 broken cookies for the remaining 10
so 10 had 3 cookies each and 6 had 55 each.
360/16=22.5 cookies each

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