Paul has two dozen carrot cookies. He will eat three cookies on Sunday. On every day that follows, he will eat a number of cookies that is one greater than the day before. On what day will he find that he doesn’t have enough cookies to follow this procedure?
AWNSER
THURSDAY
HOW I WORKED IT OUT
I wrote out all the days of the week and added up all the numbers I put beside them. He started with 24 cookies, on Sunday he had 3, on Monday he had 4, on Tuesday he had 5, on Wednesday he had 6 on Thursday he didn't have enough left to follow the procedure.
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