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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by fancy cupcakes because you should be able to eat

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your ganache with panache Sora all right To order a

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set of personalized cupcakes from sweeties custom cupcakes customers must

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pay a baseline fee of eight bucks plus sixty cents

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per cupcake ordered and twenty five cents for additional decorations

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on each cupcake Top Which of the following statements is

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true And here Special answers All right well there are

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no numbers whatsoever in our answer choices meaning we may

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be able to get through this thing just by using

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some logic and avoiding actual man fingers crossed Let's take

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these things one at a time Does the total cost

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depend on the flavor of the cupcake order Hope not

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since they're zero information about cupcake flavors in the problem

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this one's leaving a bad taste in our mouths so

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just cross it off our list right Does the total

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cost see depend on lee on the number of additional

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decorations ordered Well it's that only words that should stick

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in our cross Yeah the decorations make a difference but

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there's also the baseline amount as well as the per

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cupcake costs So this option isn't completely accurate by see

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what about d number of cupcakes order depends on the

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cost of additional decorations No you can order as many

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cupcakes as your little heart desires There will be no

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restrictions placed on the size of your order Just because

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you decide you want a hunk of snickers bar on

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top each one but he can't be right Which leaves

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us with the total cost Of the cupcakes depends on

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how many cupcakes are ordered and how many of those

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cupcakes need additional decoration Yeah if we're summing up what

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the question is asking us Well we have to take

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into account all of the relevant data Not just some

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of it for this option Checks all the boxes So

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answer is b way Didn't even need to think too

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hard to figure this one out which is really just 00:01:59.764 --> [endTime] the icing on the cupcake

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