Demothi is baking cookies for a bake sale. He is making chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin cookies.  He gets ₱2.50 for each chocolate chip cookie and ₱3.00 for each oatmeal raisin cookie.  He cannot make more than 500 chocolate and he cannot make more than 800 cookies total.  He must make at least one-third as many chocolate chip cookies as oatmeal raisin cookies.  How many of each kind of cookie should he make to get the most money?

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  1. Demothi is baking cookies for a bake sale. He is making chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin cookies.  He gets ₱2.50 for each chocolate chip cookie and ₱3.00 for each oatmeal raisin cookie.  He cannot make more than 500 chocolate and he cannot make more than 800 cookies total.  He must make at least one-third as many chocolate chip cookies as oatmeal raisin cookies.  How many of each kind of cookie should he make to get the most money?
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