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Brandon and his children went into a bakery and where they sell donuts for $1.25 each and cookies for $0.25 each. Brandon has $5.50 to spend and must buy a minimum of 10 donuts and cookies altogether. If Brandon decided to buy 2 cookies, determine the maximum number of donuts that he could buy. If there are no possible solutions, submit an empty answer.​

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Answer:

no solution

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User Zhrist
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Answer:

4 donuts, but there aren't 10 total

Step-by-step explanation:

2 cookies = $0.50

This means he has $5 left

$5 ÷ $1.25 (donut) = 4

So he can buy 4 donuts

But,

This means he does not have enough sweet treats in total, 4+2 = 6 total

I dunno what this means?

User HamoriZ
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