A Wall Street firm is trying to package nine mortgages for sale. The sizes of the mortgages (in thousands of dollars) are listed in the file P08_27.xlsx. To be sold, each package must consist of at least $1,000,000 in mortgages. What is the largest number of packages that can be created? Number of packages:  Mortgage data

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A Wall Street firm is trying to package nine mortgages for sale. The sizes of the mortgages (in thousands of dollars) are listed in the file P08_27.xlsx. To be sold, each package must consist of at least $1,000,000 in mortgages. What is the largest number of packages that can be created?

Number of packages: 

Mortgage data  
   
Mortgage Amount
1 910
2 870
3 810
4 640
5 550
6 250
7 120
8 95
9 55
   
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