Josh is saving up for a box of cookies. To raise the money, he is going to make bracelets and sell them. It costs $1 for supplies for each bracelet and he sells each one for $1.5. If he makes 12 bracelets and after buying the cookies still has $3, how much did the box of cookies cost?
He makes $.5 profit on each bracelet because 1.5 - 1 = <<1.5-1=.5>>.5
He earns $6 because 12 x .5 = <<12*.5=6>>6
The cookies cost $3 because 6 - 3 = <<6-3=3>>3
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### Instruction:
You are solving math problems. Here are some examples of how to solve the task:

James and John combine their friends lists.  James has 75 friends.  John has 3 times as many friends as James.  They share 25 friends.  How many people are on the combined list?John has 75*3=<<75*3=225>>225 people on his friends list
So that means there are 225+75=<<225+75=300>>300 people on the list
So once you remove duplicates there are 300-25=<<300-25=275>>275 people
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Baking in batches of 65 cupcakes, Carla made 45 batches of cupcakes for her daughter's birthday party. She then took 5 cupcakes from each batch, and fed them to her dogs. If Carla's daughter had 19 friends and they shared the remaining cupcakes equally among them, including the daughter, calculate the number of cupcakes that each of Carla's daughter's friends ate.If Carla sampled 5 cupcakes from each batch and fed them to her dogs, each batch had 65-5 = 60 cupcakes afterwards.
Since Carla made 45 batches of cupcakes for her daughter's birthday party, after removing the 5 cupcakes from each batch, Carla's daughter and her friends received 45*60 = <<45*60=2700>>2700 cupcakes.
The total number of people at the party is 19 friends + 1 daughter = <<19+1=20>>20
After sharing the cupcakes equally among them, Carla's daughter and her friends each received 2700/20 = <<2700/20=135>>135 cupcakes
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Now, solve this next question in the style of the above examples:

Josh is saving up for a box of cookies. To raise the money, he is going to make bracelets and sell them. It costs $1 for supplies for each bracelet and he sells each one for $1.5. If he makes 12 bracelets and after buying the cookies still has $3, how much did the box of cookies cost?

### Response:
He makes $.5 profit on each bracelet because 1.5 - 1 = <<1.5-1=.5>>.5
He earns $6 because 12 x .5 = <<12*.5=6>>6
The cookies cost $3 because 6 - 3 = <<6-3=3>>3
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