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There is a cookie jar filled with 45 cookies, if the cookies are distrubuted in A 2:3:4 RATIO among 3 children. What is the greatest number of cookies that any one child receives?
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document.write( "The numbers in a ratio can always be multiplied or divided by any\r\n" );
document.write( "positive number and the ratio is the same.  Divide each part of the\r\n" );
document.write( "ratio 2:3:4 by the sum of the numbers 2+3+4=9.  Then we have the same\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"2%2F9\":\"3%2F9\":\"4%2F9\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "reduce the \"3%2F9\" to \"1%2F3\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"2%2F9\":\"1%2F3\":\"4%2F9\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now multiply each number by 45:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"45%282%2F9%29\":\"45%281%2F3%29\":\"45%284%2F9%29\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"10%3A15%3A20\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "So one child receives 10 cookies, one child receives 15 cookies,\r\n" );
document.write( "and one child receives 20 cookies.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the greatest of these is 20 cookies.\r\n" );
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