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Betty and Billy are selling cookies at the school bake sale. Billy sold twice as many cookies as Betty. Together, they sold 15 cookies at the bake sale. Could Betty have sold 3 cookies

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No Betty would have sold at least 5 cookies.

We know that 2/3 of 15 is 10 and that 5 also happens to be half of this number.

It adds up to 15 all while the number of cookies sold by Billy is still twice a much as the cookies sold by Betty. Therefore Betty would have had to sell at least 5 cookies.

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