#51  Alex went to the supermarket and was interested in buying some cookie dough. He bought the dough for 5 dollars and 10 cents, and was charged the New York sales tax rate of 8.875%.  When Alex went home he made 15 cookies.

1. If Alex made 15 cookies out of the cookie dough he bought from the supermarket, how much would be the cost of one cookie?
2. After Alex made the cookies he sold all of them for 75 cents each.  How much profit did Alex make?

Fascinating fact:   Massachusetts’s official state cookie is the chocolate chip cookie

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