December 18th, 2015
Today's Question - Bernard, the night-time manager of Ye Olde Elf Cookie Shoppe has pre-packed boxes of assorted cookies. There are 16 pound boxes and 17 pound boxes and boxes of 23, 24, 39 and 40 pounds. A client comes in and asks for 100 pounds of cookies. Without breaking up any boxes, how close can Bernard come?
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Answer - If Bernard piled up 4 boxes of 17 pounds and 2 boxes of 16 pounds, the client would have exactly 100 pounds of cookies.Doesn't match Missing info Like question