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when Charles eats Oreos , he likes to dunk 2 out of every 5 cookies in a cold glass of milk. if he eats a total of 15 Oreos , how many will he dunk ? how many will ge eat without dunking?

User XQuare
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Answer: 6 with milk, 9 without

Explanation:

2/5 of the cookies he eats are dunked. Thus, simply do 2/5, or .4*15 to get that 6 cookies are dunked, and 15-6 to get that 9 cookies are not dunked.

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