SOLUTION: Mrs. Claus is making delicious soft homade cookies. She has made 262 cookies so far and will make batches of 24 cookies per hour for the rest of the day. But the head elf has made
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Question 1012256: Mrs. Claus is making delicious soft homade cookies. She has made 262 cookies so far and will make batches of 24 cookies per hour for the rest of the day. But the head elf has made a quick cookie baking machine. He has already made 100 cookies and his machine can make yummy cookies at a rate of 78 cookies per hour. How many hours until the machine makes the same amount of cookies as Mrs. Claus and how many cookies will that be? Answer by macston(5194) (Show Source):
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H=number of hours
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Mrs. Claus cookies=262+24H
Head Elf cookies=100+78H
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262+24H=100+78H
162=54H
3=H
ANSWER 1: In 3 hours the machine will catch up with Mrs. Claus.
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100 cookies + (3 hours) x (78 cookies/hour) = 334 cookies
ANSWER 2: The machine will have made 334 cookies.
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