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A box contains 24 cookies. Eighteen cookies are chocolate chip

cookies. Another box contains 36 cookies. How many cookies
in this box would have to be chocolate chip so that the ratios of
chocolate chip cookies to total cookies in the boxes are the same?

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The ratio is 75% (3/4) so the answer to the question is 27 chocolate chip cookies
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