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Jackie goes to the grocery store to buy snacks for a Girl Scout Wanna-Be party. She purchases 12 boxes of cookies, each of which contains 10 cookies.

Jackie wants to distribute as many of these cookies as possible to the 23 people who will be at his party. If each person is given the same number of cookies, how many cookies will be left over?


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All right S math shmoop er's or whoever you are

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Jackie goes to the grocery store to buy snacks for

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a girl scout wannabe party She purchases twelve boxes of

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cookies each of which contains ten cookies Jackie wants to

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distribute as many of these cookies as possible to the

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twenty three people who will be at her party If

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each person is given the same number of cookies how

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many cookies will be left over All right this should

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not be hard Are the cookies on ly knockoff girl

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scout cookies or they like you know the real deal

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It's important for knowing if jackie's going to make the

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cut here like you know who knew the girl scouts

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were such an exclusive club right Movement on first calculate

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the total number of cookies that jackie bought right She

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came home with a whopping twelve boxes ten cookies each

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So basic nullification they're one hundred twenty cookies total Then

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she wants to divide those hundred twenty cookies equally among

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twenty three people unfortunately or fortunately depending on who gets

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the leftovers one hundred twenty cookies just not divide evenly

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into twenty three people So we just divide twenty three

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into one twenty and we get five Very multiply that

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out We got a hundred fifteen We subtracted from the

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one twenty there Think it's us five Well the remainder

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of five cookies means that after each guest eats five

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jackson has five extra left All right we're done man

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through see

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