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The new teacher thought she’d get the children to drink the milk at recess more cheerfully by offering cookies with it. A lot of the children had illnesses and were out, causing various numbers of children to be present each day.

One day  the teacher noted that if there were five fewer children the next day, they would each get two cookies more if she brought the same number she had that day. However, the absentee list was low the next day, and she had four more children instead of five fewer. This meant that each received one cookie less than each child had received the day before.

How many cookies did the children get the second day? __________________________

Dan1284 · Accepted Answer

Five cookies.

Anonymous · Answer

N = Number of cookies available

C1 = size of class the first day
C2 = size of class the second day

1) N/C1 = G1 = number of goodies per student the first day
2) N/(C1-5) = G1 + 2 = result if 5 absent
3) N/C2 = G2 = G1 - 1 = number of goodies per student the second day
Three equations, three unknowns (N, C1, G1)
Substitute and reduce and substitute back.

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jabur · Answer

Are you insane???? Its not the cookies you should worry about. try bring them to hospital and save as many lives as you can. HAHAHA....
it should be 15/23 parts of the cookies in the first day.....

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