document.write( "Question 1184419: Nail baked an equal number of green tea and coconut cookies. After giving away 196
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document.write( "Let x be the number of one kind of cookies - then the other kind quantity is x, too.\r\n" );
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document.write( "From the problem, you have this equation\r\n" );
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document.write( "To solve this equation, first cross-multiply; then simplify.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The rest is simple arithmetic.\r\n" );
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