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Three kids, Alberto, Bernadette, and Carlos, decide to share 11 cookies. They wonder how many ways they could split the cookies up provided that none of them receive more than 4 cookies (someone receiving no cookies is for some reason acceptable to these kids

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Answer:

Each kid can get 3 cookies and split up the remaining 2 cookies into thirds so each kid gets the same amount of cookies.

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