Hot Dog! Mystery Cache
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Back in the day, my siblings and I used to do a lot of camping. When we reached our early teens, we decided we wanted to go on a campout for several days. Our mother told us kids that if we wanted to go camping, we had to plan the meals. No prob--as long as Dad is buying. We would have hot dogs! How tough could that be? We took along mustard, relish, catsup, buns, and a few other things. We'd eat like kings!
However, after setting up camp we didn't properly stow away our food. Raccoons got into it and ate 1/3 of our hot dogs! After discovering the loss in the morning, we ate 6 of the remaining hot dogs with eggs for breakfast. We apparently didn't learn our lesson, because when we went out sightseeing, we just left the hot dogs on the table. We returned to find that jays had eaten another 1/4 of our remaining supply.
Despite our bad luck with the food, we continued to enjoy the camping trip. Dad went to the store and bought a dozen more hot dogs to add to our supply. Then some of our campsite neighbors had a hankering for normal food and "borrowed" 2/5 of our remaining hot dogs. For dinner that evening, we ate 10 hot dogs. While we slept that night, bears raided our food and got 3/4 of the last part of our supply. In the morning, we all shared the remaining 2 hot dogs. How many hot dogs did we start with?
Final Coordinates are: N 43° 33.AB W 89° 50.CD
A = Number of hot dogs remaining after we ate 10 for dinner.
B = Number of hot dogs my dad bought minus the total number eaten by raccoons and my family.
C = Number of hot dogs we started with minus the number remaining after the neighbors' theft.
D = Number of hot dogs the bears ate minus the number of hot dogs eaten by jays.
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