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Clamentine and jake make cookies for the school bake sale. Clamentine baked 72 cookies. Jake baked twice as many as clementine. How many cookies did they bake altogether?

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Answer:

Jake has 144 cookies.

Explanation:
Let's say Clementine is x.

Clementine: x
Jake: 2x

Now, let's substitute x with 72 since the number is given.

This means that Jake has 72 * 2 cookies which are 144.

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