Suppose you always eat a particular brand of cookes out of the standart sized package, it comes in from the store, which has 4 rows of cookies in equal amounts. You notice that when you eat 3 at a time, there's always one cookie left over. You decide when you purchase the next package, you'll eat 5 at a time, but still, there's always one cookie left over. Since it really is'nt helpfull to always have a leftover cookie, you decide to eat 7 at a time, and there are no cookies leftover, but you notice that in your last grab of 7 cookies, you're one cookie short. A. If you know there are less tha 100 cookies in the package, how many cookies are there? Solve the problem, showing each step of your work, and explain your thinking.
Suppose you always eat a particular brand of cookes out of the standart sized package, it comes in from the store, which has 4 rows of cookies in equal amounts. You notice that when you eat 3 at a time, there's always one cookie left over. You decide when you purchase the next package, you'll eat 5 at a time, but still, there's always one cookie left over. Since it really is'nt helpfull to always have a leftover cookie, you decide to eat 7 at a time, and there are no cookies leftover, but you notice that in your last grab of 7 cookies, you're one cookie short.
A. If you know there are less tha 100 cookies in the package, how many cookies are there? Solve the problem, showing each step of your work, and explain your thinking.
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