Suppose that a certain muffin shop has 240 ounces of dough and 280 ounces of sugar. It requires 4 ounces of dough and 4 ounces of sugar to make sugar cookies, while 4 ounces of dough and 6 ounces of sugar to make a chocolate chip cookie. How many cookies of each type should she make to use all the dough and sugar?

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Suppose that a certain muffin shop has 240 ounces of dough and 280 ounces of sugar. It requires 4 ounces of dough and 4 ounces of sugar to make sugar cookies, while 4 ounces of dough and 6 ounces of sugar to make a chocolate chip cookie. How many cookies of each type should she make to use all the dough and sugar?

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