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Question 1

On a table, there is a blue cookie, yellow cookie, and orange cookie. Those are also the colors of the hats of three bored girls in the room. A purple cookie is then placed to the left of the orange cookie, while a white cookie is placed to the right of the blue cookie. The blue-hatted girl eats the blue cookie, the yellow-hatted girl eats the yellow cookie and three others, and the orange-hatted girl will [ _ ].

A) eat the orange cookie
B) eat the orange, white and purple cookies
C) be unable to eat a cookie
D) eat just one or two cookies

Question 2

Beth places four whole ice cubes in a frying pan at the start of the first minute, then five at the start of the second minute and some more at the start of the third minute, but none in the fourth minute. If the average number of ice cubes per minute placed in the pan while it was frying a crispy egg was five, how many whole ice cubes can be found in the pan at the end of the third minute? Pick the most realistic answer option.

A) 5
B) 11
C) 0
D) 20