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Camel banana relay to market
Middle school · ●●●○○ 50 pts
Corey the Camel harvests 3,000 bananas in her grove. The market is 1,000 miles away. Corey walks to the market and eats one banana for each mile she walks. She can carry at most 1,000 bananas at a time, and she may stash bananas along the route and pick them up on later trips. Find the maximum number of bananas that can reach the market. Round to two decimal places.