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Francois baked just enough cookies to fill all the orders at his bakery. While the cookies were cooling, a kitchen assistant knocked over a cooling rack and spilled 12% of the cookies onto the floor. Francois
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Francois baked just enough cookies to fill all the orders at his bakery. While the cookies were cooling, a kitchen assistant knocked over a cooling rack and spilled 12% of the cookies onto the floor. Francois had to bake 36 more cookies to replace them.

How many cookies were ordered in total?

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We see that 12% of the cookies is 36, so we write an equation! Call the number of cookies x.

12x/100=36

Multiplying by 100/12, we see that:

x=300

Thus, 300 cookies were ordered.
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