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A cookie manufacturer wants to claim that its chocolate chip cookies have the most chips in each cookie. to make this claim each cookie must have at least 25 chocolate chips. A 1-pound bag of chocolate chips contains 500 chips. How many cookies can the company make using 10 pounds of chocolate chips?

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10 pounds of chocolate chips contains 10*500 = 5000 chips.

Each cookie must contain at least 25 chocolate chips. Therefore, the toal number of cookies that the company cam make is 5000/25 = 200

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