What Can a Cookie Do? Question #3.

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Here’s question #3 from our ‘What Can a Cookie Do?’ Treasure Hunt! 

Question #3:

If you stacked up all Classic Cookies estimated to be sold this season, one on top of the other, approximately how high would they reach (in km)? Please guess a specific number, i.e. 1,230.

Need a clue*? Clue #3: A number between 236 and 803 km.

About this campaign: This campaign is intended to help Units sell cookies and to promote Cookie Day at Sears, April 2, 2011!  Encourage your family, friends & supporters to participate! Starting March 21 till March 31, we’ll post one question about cookie facts here on our blog. You can come back to add your guess in the comment section as many times as you like, and for any of the questions as they will remain open until the end of the campaign on March 31, 2011 at 11:59 pm EST. Enter your guess in the comments section below.  The winner with the closest number of guesses in total from each of the daily questions will be crowned our Online Cookie All-Star on April 1, 2011. (Complete details.)

Did you miss question #1? Read and answer it here!
Did you miss question #2? Read and answer it here!

32 responses to “What Can a Cookie Do? Question #3.”

  1. Cathy Avatar
    Cathy

    I think they will stack 593 km high.

  2. Bri Arnold Avatar
    Bri Arnold

    750 km high?

    … all this math is hurting my head!

  3. Toni Auclair Avatar
    Toni Auclair

    545 km

  4. Kathryn Brunton Avatar

    Cookie boxes stacked end to end will reach 775 km high.
    Cookie boxes stacked flat on top of each other will reach 238 km high…
    I don’t usually muse about such things…I just eat ’em!!!

  5. Kathleen Avatar
    Kathleen

    732km

  6. Penny Saunders Avatar
    Penny Saunders

    345 kms

  7. Stephanie N Avatar
    Stephanie N

    I say 240km.

  8. Lindsay Ball Avatar
    Lindsay Ball

    They would stack up to approx 609 km

  9. Brenda Lacharity Avatar
    Brenda Lacharity

    567 km high! of course those boxes would be empty LOL

  10. Linda Hodgkin Avatar
    Linda Hodgkin

    GGC – please check the ads at the end of the presentation on the Slideshare page.

    1. GirlGuidesCanBlog Avatar

      Thanks Linda. We’re looking into this asap as it is randomly assigned based on our content with the word GIRLS. If we cannot rectify the situation within a few minutes, we will substittue this clue within the blog post above and take it down from Slideshare all together.

      1. Essie Avatar

        I much prefer inrfoamitve articles like this to that high brow literature.

  11. Joy M. Avatar
    Joy M.

    499 km is my guess.

  12. heather Avatar
    heather

    500 km

  13. heather Avatar
    heather

    801.5 km

  14. Marilyn Maggiora Avatar
    Marilyn Maggiora

    my guess is 756 km

  15. Tiana Wang Avatar
    Tiana Wang

    the clue says 236 – 803 km so could be….
    236,237,238,239,240,241,242,243,244,245,246,2247,248,249,250,251,252,253,254,255,256 ect.
    But my guess is 715 km

  16. Meghan Avatar
    Meghan

    553 km

  17. Stephen Ball Avatar
    Stephen Ball

    696 km

  18. Julie Horne Avatar
    Julie Horne

    756 km

  19. Cardinal Avatar
    Cardinal

    394 km

  20. Kim S Avatar
    Kim S

    239km stacked flat

  21. Kym Morgan Avatar
    Kym Morgan

    768km

    1. Kym Morgan Avatar
      Kym Morgan

      after carfully reading question 6, and having the meanings of the questions clarified, i have to change my answer to question 3, it should be a much larger number than this… so my new guess is 1300 km’s

  22. Tania Avatar
    Tania

    520

  23. H Avatar
    H

    600 km of cookies

  24. Toni Auclair Avatar
    Toni Auclair

    720

  25. Harmit Avatar
    Harmit

    528

  26. Harmit Avatar
    Harmit

    528 km

  27. Harmit Avatar
    Harmit

    552 km

  28. Katharine Avatar
    Katharine

    756

  29. Rohit Jain Avatar
    Rohit Jain

    450 km

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