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Emily has 20 chocolate chip cookies in 48 sugar cookies she wants to make baskets with the same number of cookies in each basket what is the greatest number of baskets she can make

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Answer: Take your pick, Emily.

Explanation:

1) Assuming Emily wants both Chocolate Chip(CC) and Sugar Cookies(SC) in each basket, she could make 20 baskets having 1 CC and 2 SC in each basket. That would leave 8 SC (48-40) without any matching CC.

2) If Emily doesn't care about the makeup of each basket (e.g., some baskets may have any combination of cookies), she has a total of (20 + 48) or 68 cookies. She has the following choices:

1 cookie each: 68 baskets

2 cookies each: 34 baskets

3 cookies each: 22 baskets with 2 cookies left over

And so forth.

Unless Emily was given some other condition (e.g., a minimum of 5 cookies/basket), there are many possible answers.

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