document.write( "Question 1172094: Mrs. Ramos sold twice as many butter cookies as chocolate chip cookies and
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document.write( "She sold exactly 80 chocolate chip cookies, 160 butter cookies, and \r\n" );
document.write( "40 coconut cookies, a total of 80+160+40=280 cookies. \r\n" );
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document.write( "It's possible that she did not sell any boxes of 6 cookies at all, and\r\n" );
document.write( "sold all 280 cookies separately for P8 each.  That way she would take in \r\n" );
document.write( "280 x P8 = P2240.  That's the most she could have taken in.\r\n" );
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document.write( "But it's also possible that she sold \r\n" );
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document.write( "1. 46 boxes of 6 cookies at P45, earning 46 x P45 = P2070. That\r\n" );
document.write( "   would amount to 46 x 6 = 276 cookies sold, which is all but 4 cookies.\r\n" );
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document.write( "2. The remaining 4 cookies at P8 each.  That would be 4 x P8 = P32\r\n" );
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document.write( "The total earning in that case would be P2070 + P32 = P2102.\r\n" );
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document.write( "That would be the least amount of money she could have taken in.\r\n" );
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document.write( "There are many other possibilities, but the least amount possible is P2102 and\r\n" );
document.write( "the most amount possible is P2240.  You left out some part of the problem.\r\n" );
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