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cookies are sold singly or in packages of 2 or 6. with this packaging, how many ways can you buy exactly 10 cookies? Please help ASAP!!!

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you can buy 10 cookies 3 different ways
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A person can buy exactly 10 cookies in 9 different ways, given cookies are sold only singly or in packages of 2 or 6.

How do we solve the given question?

We are asked to find the number of ways in which a person can buy exactly 10 cookies, given cookies is sold only singly or in packages of 2 or 6.

To check the number of ways we determine different ways in which the person can buy exactly 10 cookies:

  1. 10 singly cookies
  2. 8 singly cookies + 1 package of 2 cookies
  3. 6 singly cookies + 2 packages of 2 cookies
  4. 4 singly cookies + 3 packages of 2 cookies
  5. 4 singly cookies + 1 package of 6 cookies
  6. 2 singly cookies + 4 packages of 2 cookies
  7. 2 singly cookies + 1 package of 2 cookies + 1 package of 6 cookies
  8. 5 packages of 2 cookies
  9. 2 packages of 2 cookies + 1 package of six cookies.

∴ A person can buy exactly 10 cookies in 9 different ways, given cookies are sold only singly or in packages of 2 or 6.

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