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Elephant carrying bananas to city B

High school · ●●●●○ 100 pts

Two cities AA and BB are 10001000 km apart. City AA has 30003000 bananas and an elephant that can carry at most 10001000 bananas at a time. The elephant eats one banana per km and cannot travel without bananas. Assume the elephant eats continuously, so it can eat fractions of a banana along the way. What is the maximum number of bananas that can be transferred to city BB? Round to two decimal places.

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