document.write( "Question 1027455: Barney had a bag of cookies he ate 35 in the first 10 minutes
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\n" ); document.write( "ate 15 cookies while Barney was at work. When Barney got home from
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Barney had a bag of cookies.
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\n" ); document.write( "His wife Louise, ate 15 cookies while Barney was at work.
\n" ); document.write( "When Barney got home from work, he ate 1/2 of the remaining cookies.
\n" ); document.write( "Louise ate 5 more when he went out into the backyard
\n" ); document.write( "Barney then ate 15 more and found that he had only 2 left
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document.write( "Let's go backward through the eating and making of cookies.\r\n" );
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document.write( "In the end there were only 2  \r\n" );
document.write( "Before that, Louise ate 15.                <--Barney ate 15\r\n" );
document.write( "Before that there were 17. \r\n" );
document.write( "Before that Louise ate 5.                  <--Louise ate 5\r\n" );
document.write( "Before that there were 22. \r\n" );
document.write( "Before that he ate 1/2 of the remaining,  \r\n" );
document.write( "Before that there were 44.  So he ate 22.  <--Barney ate 22\r\n" );
document.write( "Before that, Louise ate 15 cookies.        <--Louise ate 15\r\n" );
document.write( "Before that there were 59. \r\n" );
document.write( "Before that he made 10 more.\r\n" );
document.write( "Before that there were only 49.\r\n" );
document.write( "Before that he ate 20.                     <--Barney ate 20  \r\n" );
document.write( "Before that there were 69.\r\n" );
document.write( "He ate 1/4 of the remaining cookies.\r\n" );
document.write( "     So the remaining 69 was the other 3/4 of how many\r\n" );
document.write( "     there were before. \r\n" );
document.write( "     69÷(3/4) = 69x(4/3) = 92\r\n" );
document.write( "     So he ate 1/4 of 92 or 23.            <--Barney ate 23\r\n" );
document.write( "So before he ate those 23, there were 92.\r\n" );
document.write( "Before that he ate 35.                     <--Barney ate 35\r\n" );
document.write( "Before that there were 127.\r\n" );
document.write( "So he started with 127.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The arrows above indicate the cookies that each ate.\r\n" );
document.write( "So Barney ate 15+22+20+23+35 = 115 cookies.\r\n" );
document.write( "To check, Louise ate 5+15 = 20\r\n" );
document.write( "That makes 135 cookies eaten by them both,\r\n" );
document.write( "He started with 127 cookies and made 10 more,\r\n" );
document.write( "so altogether there were 137 cookies, They ate\r\n" );
document.write( "135 of them and there were 2 cookies left. So\r\n" );
document.write( "that checks.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Since he gained 1 pound for every 10 cookies, \r\n" );
document.write( "Barney gained 115÷10=11.5 pounds.\r\n" );
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document.write( "[Louise gained 20÷10=2 pounds]\r\n" );
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