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Girl scout cookies

Act 1

A speeded up video shows a car boot being loaded with boxes of cookies. How many boxes of cookies will fit in the boot?

Act 2

Further information is given in the form of pictures of a box of cookies and the car, with and without dimensions.

Act 3

The video is replayed with a counter for the number of boxes of cookies loaded into the boot. This reveals that there are 924 boxes.

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