A supermarket had a one day sale on Pepperidge Farm cookies. It sold three times as many packages of chocolate-chip cookies as oatmeal, and twice as many fudge-almond as oatmeal. If the supermarket sold 600 packages in one day, how many packages of each did it sell?

oatmeal=100, choc chip=300 and fudge=200????

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A supermarket had a one day sale on Pepperidge Farm cookies. It sold three times as many packages of chocolate-chip cookies as oatmeal, and twice as many fudge-almond as oatmeal. If the supermarket sold 600 packages in one day, how many packages of each did it sell?

oatmeal=100, choc chip=300 and fudge=200????

agreene · Answer

I wonder if Pepperidge Farm had to pay for that advert in your book O.o

anonymous · Answer

are they a real company???

agreene · Answer

yes, and they sell cookies in those varieties... In fact their cookies are very expensive (for cookies)... anyway, your answer makes sense, and i believe is correct.

anonymous · Answer

oatmeal = x
chocolate=3x
fudge= 2x