Suppose you always eat a particular brand of cookes out of the standart sized package, it comes in from the store, which has 4 rows of cookies in equal amounts. You notice that when you eat 3 at a time, there's always one cookie left over. You decide when you purchase the next package, you'll eat 5 at a time, but still, there's always one cookie left over. Since it really is'nt helpfull to always have a leftover cookie, you decide to eat 7 at a time, and there are no cookies leftover, but you notice that in your last grab of 7 cookies, you're one cookie short. B. You decide to space out your cookie eating, and eat one cookie a day, how many weeks will one package of cookies last?

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Suppose you always eat a particular brand of cookes out of the standart sized package, it comes in from the store, which has 4 rows of cookies in equal amounts. You notice that when you eat 3 at a time, there's always one cookie left over. You decide when you purchase the next package, you'll eat 5 at a time, but still, there's always one cookie left over. Since it really is'nt helpfull to always have a leftover cookie, you decide to eat 7 at a time, and there are no cookies leftover, but you notice that in your last grab of 7 cookies, you're one cookie short.

B. You decide to space out your cookie eating, and eat one cookie a day, how many weeks will one package of cookies last?

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