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hazel had money to buy 25 chocolate cookies, each choc cookie costs as much as 2 butter cookies.hazel borrowed another 6 dollars to buy 20 choc and 20 butter cookies. How much
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hazel had money to buy 25 chocolate cookies, each choc cookie costs as much as 2 butter cookies.hazel borrowed another 6 dollars to buy 20 choc and 20 butter cookies. How much
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hazel had money to buy 25 chocolate cookies, each choc cookie costs as much as 2 butter cookies.hazel borrowed another 6 dollars to buy 20 choc and 20 butter cookies. How much did hazelinitially have.
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Hi
hazel had money to buy 25 chocolate cookies, each choc cookie costs as much as 2 butter cookies.hazel borrowed
another 6 dollars to buy 20 choc and 20 butter cookies. How much did hazel initially have.
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Hazel initially had money to buy 25 chocolate cookies, or, equivalently, 50 butter cookies.
After borrowing 6 dollars she buys 20 choc and 20 butter cookies that are equivalent to 2*20 +20 = 60 butter cookies.
Hence, 60-50 = 10 butter cookies cost 6 dollars.
Then 50 cookies cost 5*6 = 30 dollars.
It is the amount Hazel had initially (see my uppermost line).
Answer. Hazel did have 30 dollars initially.
