jim burned 12 of his cookies that was 2/5 of all his cookies how many cookies are edible?

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If 12 cookies is 2/5 of all the cookies, then 1/5 of all the cookies is 6, and there were 6×5=30 cookies.

But 12 were burned, so that leaves 30-12=18 edible cookies.

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