document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1210594>Question 1210594</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Luka and his friends are preparing for a local bazaar. Luka spent 2 1/2 hours making friendship bracelets, which was 3/4 of the time he spent baking cookies. The ratio of the number of cookies he baked to the number of bracelets he made was 5:2.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "1. How many hours did Luka spend baking cookies?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "2. If he sold 3/5 of his cookies and 1/2 of his bracelets, and he had 48 cookies left, how many bracelets did he have remaining?<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "We do not know what his friends did to prepare for the bazaar.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "We know that Luka make friendship bracelets and cookies.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "We all agree that Luka spent 3 hours and 20 minutes baking cookies.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "We also know that the ratio of the number of cookies Luka baked to the number of bracelets he made was 5:2.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "That means that for every 5 cookies he made, he made 2 bracelets.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "That means that the number of bracelets he made is <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=highlight%282%2F5%29 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"highlight%282%2F5%29\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" > of the number of cookies he made.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "We assume that Luka took all the cookies and bracelets he made to the bazaar to be sold.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "2. If Luka sold 3/5 of his cookies, and he had 48 cookies left, what do we know?<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "In that case, and if no one got any cookies for free, the fraction of the cookies Lukas made that he did not sold must be the fraction of cookies Luka had left.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "That fraction is <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=1-3%2F5+=+5%2F5-3%2F5+=+highlight%282%2F5%29 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"1-3%2F5+=+5%2F5-3%2F5+=+highlight%282%2F5%29\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" > of the cookies he made. and that amounts to <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=48 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"48\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" > .<BR>\n" );
document.write( "But we know that the number of bracelets Luka made is <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=2%2F5 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"2%2F5\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" > of number of cookies he made.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "That means that Luka made <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=48 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"48\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" > bracelets.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "If Luka \"sold 1/2 of his bracelets\" at the bazaar, then he had the other 1/2 of his bracelets remaining, and that is 1/2 of 24, or <BR>\n" );
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