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A teacher has 27 students and each student has completed 6 assignments for the quarter. The teacher has not graded any of the assignments yet, but she can grade approximately 3 assignments per hour. How long will it take the teacher to grade all the assignments?
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Paul is making a salad. He wants to include lettuce, tomatoes, chicken, corn, beans, peppers and dressing. Lettuce costs $20. Tomatoes cost 30% of the price of lettuce. Chicken costs 300% of the price of tomatoes. Corn costs half the price of price of tomatoes. Beans cost triple the price of corn. Peppers cost 20% of t...
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Ann makes $112,000 a year and she wants to start budgeting and creating savings. How much can her yearly expenses be if she wants to save 35% of her income?
72800
Vinny is buying two types of prosciutto. There's prosciutto di Parma on sale for $20/lb. and San Daniele for $28/lb. If Vinny buys 2 lbs. each, and then gives a quarter of both to his neighbor Nicky, what's the value of what Vinny brings home?
72
Maya wants to make a dish that needs 4 carrots, 2 beets, 1 onion, and 3 squash. She goes to the market to buy them. Each carrot costs $0.5. Each beet costs $1. Each onion costs $0.34. Each squash costs $0.22. She had a $20 with her and she gives that to the cashier. How much change will the cashier give back to her?
15
Leroy wants to earn money to buy a basketball hoop and decides to save money for five weeks. Starting with $15 the first week, the money Leroy earned increased each week by $10 more than the previous week. If the basketball hoop costs $200, how much more does Leroy need to earn to purchase it?
25
A baker bakes 120 cupcakes for a party. The baker sells them in boxes of 10. Each box of 10 is $15. If the baker does this for two parties, how much, in dollars, will the baker make?
360
Mary has 2 different jobs. In the first job, she works 25 hours per week and earns $30 per hour. In the second job, she works 15 hours per week and earns 1.5 times per hour more than she earns in her first job. How much money does she earn in a year if she works 48 weeks a year?
68400
Pat is working on a homework assignment that involves typing a story a story of at least 2000 words. Pat can type at a rate of 35 words per minute. If he wants to finish the homework assignment in 60 minutes by typing at this rate over this entire time period, by how many words can he exceed the minimum word count requ...
100
Liam wants to buy a new smartphone that costs $800. He saves $200 from his birthday money. To cover the rest, he plans to save the same amount per month for 3 months from his part-time job. After buying the smartphone, he sells his old one for $100. If he divides the remaining money equally between himself and his sist...
50
On a normal day, you aim to consume 1500 net calories. But today, you eat 450 calories at breakfast, 560 calories at lunch, and 730 calories at dinner. You exercised and burned 10% of the calories you consumed. How many more net calories did you consume today than you do on a normal day?
66
In a science competition, a group of students is awarded points based on their project's complexity and presentation. The complexity score is twice the presentation score. If a student receives a presentation score of 18 points and there are 5 students in the group, what is the total combined score for complexity and p...
270
Nancy is a big fan of short video streaming. She watches 2 short videos on Monday. Starting from Tuesday, every day she watches 2 more short videos than the previous day. Each short video takes 5 minutes. What is the total time in minutes that Nancy spends watching short videos from Monday to Thursday?
100
Anna has bought 3 books. The first book has 2 chapters and each chapter has 2 sections. The second book has 3 chapters and each chapter has 3 sections. The third book has 2 chapters and each chapter has 4 sections. How many sections in total will Anna read?
21
The legislative assembly of Country Z is trying to elect a new prime minister. The purple party wants to elect Jim, and the violet party wants to elect John. There are 200 seats in the assembly. The purple party holds 80 seats, the violet party holds 70 seats, and the rest of the seats are filled by independents. Assum...
32
A tailor is making curtains and needs to buy fabric. The fabric is sold by the yard. Each curtain requires 5 yards of fabric and the tailor is making 4 curtains. If the fabric costs $7 per yard and the tailor also has to pay cutting fees of $10 for each curtain, how much will the total cost be in dollars?
180
Frank sneaks out before his break at 3:20 pm and gets back at 4:05. If his break was only supposed to be half an hour, for how much longer did Frank sneak out?
15
Amy has a 50-person orchestra. The orchestra is comprised of violins, flutes, clarinets and cellos. There are 20 violins, half as many flutes, and half as many cellos as flutes. How many members play the clarinet?
15
Nia has 3 hours to dedicate to completing her homework and college applications over the weekend. She has 5 math problems to complete that will take her 3 minutes each. For Spanish, Nia will work on a short essay and 3 recordings. The short essay will take 25 minutes and each recording will take 8 minutes. For her gov...
96
Zoe is going on a road trip. She will drive from city and city. The first part of the trip is 225 miles. The second part of the trip is 342 miles more than the first part. The third part of the trip is exactly twice the second part of the trip. How long is the total trip in miles?
1926
Micah wants to see the solar eclipse with her friends. She searches for safety glasses to view the eclipse and finds 3 brands. One brand sells an 8-pack for $16. The second sells a 6-pack for $18. The last brand sells 4 for $20. She wants to spend no more than $5 per pair on average. How many dollars will she be under ...
2
A summer camp has 18 cabins that hold 15 campers each. For a weekend retreat, the camp was only 40% full. How many campers were staying in the camp over this weekend?
108
Callie eats 2 eggs every morning. If she buys 2 dozen eggs, how long will it take for her to run out?
12
Mr. Dune is planning a choir field trip to Washington, D.C. for 183 members. Ticket prices vary based upon fundraising activities. 1. Seven members are on scholarship and will pay $200 each. 2. Twenty-three members held a car wash and will pay $199 each. 3. Twenty-seven members held a garage sale and will pay $175 each...
69137
Fairytale land voted on a new speed limit. 75% of the 200 votes were in favor of the new speed limit. How many voters were not in favor?
50
Janice owns two cow farms. 1,200 gallons of milk are produced by 200 cows on one of the farms. Although there are 40% more cows on the second farm, each cow yields 50% less milk. What is Janice's milk production from the second farm?
840
There are 300 marbles in a bag. 60% of the marbles are red. 20% of the remaining marbles are green. The rest are black. How many are black?
96
Jack made 60 cups of apple juice on the first day. On the second day, he doubled the amount of apple juice he made. On the third day, he only made 60% of what he made in the first two days combined. If he sells each cup for $1.50, how much money does he make on the third day?
162
Bart, Tyler, and Sean were sharing five pizzas, each with 8 slices. If Bart ate 40% of the slices and Tyler ate 25% of the slices, how many slices of pizza did Sean eat?
14
Zara buys 4 large of cupcakes and 3 small boxes of cup cakes. Each large box has 28 cupcakes and the small has 16 cupcakes. How many cupcakes did she get altogether?
160
Sam starts to earn money by making short videos. He earns $100 on the first day. Then every day he earns 30% more than the previous day. What is his average earning within the first 3 days?
133
Colby and Mia are playing rock, paper, scissors. They have been playing for an hour and Colby has won 20 matches and Mia has won 10 times. If Mia wants to beat Colby by 5 matches, how many more wins does she need?
15
Micah wants to measure the rainfall in his backyard during a rainstorm. On day 1, he measured 2 inches of rain and on day 2 he measured twice as many inches of rain as the day before. How many inches of rain did he measure in total?
6
The taco truck in Saratoga Springs uses Vidalia onions in its taco seasoning. For every 10 tacos, 1 Vidalia onion is needed. On Monday, there is a catering order for 400 tacos. On Tuesday, there is a catering order for 1,500. On Wednesday, there is a catering order for ½ of the tacos that were ordered on Tuesday. On Th...
775
Felix is planning a trip to the theme park with 9 of his friends. Each ticket costs $25, and parking costs $15 per car. Because there are 10 in the group, including Felix, they will need to take 2 cars. Luckily, there is a 10% sale on the price of tickets. Additionally, the group pays a $45 tax collectively. After calc...
30
A school staff meeting had 80 faculty members in attendance. 15% were first-grade teachers, and 25% were second-grade teachers. What was the total number of first-grade and second-grade teachers that were in attendance?
32
Old MacDonald has a farm. He has 90 birds. ⅓ of the birds are chickens and the rest are ducks. Additionally, the number of cows he has is triple the number of chickens and ducks combined. If Old MacDonald wanted to increase the amount of ducks and cows by 10%, how many additional animals would he be adding to his farm?
33
Gilbert bought three identical dolls for $78 and two of the same toy cars for his nephews and nieces which brings his overall total to $122. Later, in a separate transaction, he bought gifts for his friends' kids. He bought twice the amount of dolls as he did previously, one toy car, and a robot. The change to his $250...
78
Dwight ordered 17 lbs of salmon-flavored kibbles and 45 lbs of beef-flavored kibbles. The package that it came in damaged 13 lbs of the beef-flavored kibbles. How many lbs of food does Dwight have?
49
Paul is planning for a birthday party. He has to buy pizza, soda, chips, and salsa. His budget is $200. Pizzas cost $13, soda costs $5, chips cost $7, and salsa costs $4. He buys 5 pizzas, 6 bottles of soda, 8 bags of chips, and 4 salsas. How much money does he have left over?
33
The temperature in a certain city has been unusually high recently. The temperature 4 days ago was 30 degrees above the average temperature at this time of year. The next day, it was 30 degrees less than double the historical average. On the third day, the temperature was halfway between the first and second days. Toda...
98
Tommy wants to lose 200 kilograms. He aims for 5 kilograms per month. If he meets the goal every month for an entire year, how much more weight will he need to lose to meet his overall goal?
140
Micah raises baby dachshunds and pit bulls. Her adult dachshunds had 3 litters of 4 puppies each. The pit bulls had 2 litters of 6 puppies each. A friend adopted 2 of the dachshunds. She donated ½ of the remaining puppies to a local shelter. Her sister took 3 more puppies. How many puppies did she end up with?
8
Oswald is on his way to work. It takes him 4 minutes to get from his parking lot to the building lobby. From there, he takes the elevator to the 30th floor, which takes 2 seconds per floor. Unfortunately, the elevator breaks down at that point, and Oswald has to wait 7 minutes for someone to let him out on the 30th flo...
16
Lisa bought 8 hot dogs, she got back $4 in change after giving the cashier $20. How much was each hot dog?
2
Kay is selling drinks at a soccer game. She sells bottles of water for $2 and soda for $3. The first day she sells 10 bottles of water and twice as many sodas. The next day, she sells five more bottles of water and cans of soda than the proceeding day. How much money does she make?
185
Mrs. Watson, a high school Spanish teacher, is required to input 2 grades a week per student per her school's grading policy. Mrs. Watson has 6 classes in total. Her 1st-period class has 32 students, 2nd-period has 28 students, 3rd-period has 41 students, 4th-period has 23 students, 5th-period has 18 students, and her...
350
Will, Darren, and Sid are planning on having a picnic. They each buy some items and then split the total cost amongst themselves. Sid buys 10 blocks of cheese that cost $3 each and three times as much bread which costs $4 each. Darren buys $30 worth of mangos, $40 worth of watermelons, and $30 worth of cantaloupes. Wil...
70
Alex goes to school every day from Monday through Friday. Each day of school they have classes from 8 am to 12 pm and from 2 pm to 5 pm. How many hours of classes Alex has per week?
35
Orlando wants to get some food delivered to his house. He gets a chicken sandwich, which costs $6, and some fries, which are $4. A 10% sales tax applies to the cost of the food. The delivery charge is $0.50 per mile the carrier needs to travel, and Orlando lives 14 miles away. If Orlando pays the delivery person with a...
2
Henrietta just bought a new house. The house is shaped like a rectangle that measures 16 feet by 24 feet. She has new hardwood installed that costs $14 per square foot. She also has a special sealant applied to the hardwood that costs an additional $4 per square foot, but she only gets it applied to half of the hardwoo...
6144
Morgan and Sarah are eating dinner together. Sarah ordered a steak, a side of mashed potatoes, and a diet soda. Morgan ordered the same things and an additional side of sweet corn. A steak costs $16, a side of mashed potato costs half the amount of steak, sweet corn costs $2 less than mashed potatoes, and a diet soda c...
31
Herbert is making grilled cheese sandwiches to sell in the parking lot outside of a Grateful Dead concert. He ends up selling 84 sandwiches throughout the day at $3 a sandwich. He agrees to pay his friend Charlie a quarter of his total earnings, because Charlie loaned him the grill. How much does he owe Charlie?
63
Audrey is a professional deep-sea fisherwoman with a knack for catching tuna. She can usually catch 705 on one trip out to sea. When she returns to shore and weighs anchor, she has to package the tuna in coolers to be shipped to markets, and each cooler can hold 5 tuna. Each market can only accept 3 coolers of tuna due...
47
Morgan reads thirty pages in an hour while Amy reads twice the amount. How many total pages do they read in one hour?
90
Tom wants to sell brownies at his school's basketball game. Before the game begins, Tom sells 16 brownies. After the 1st quarter, the basketball team had half as many points as the brownies Tom sold before the game started. Tom then sells 1/4 as many brownies as he sold before the game. During halftime, Tom sells 3 tim...
56
Michael has a collection of stickers. He gives 15 stickers to his friend and then buys a new pack with 30 stickers to add to his collection. If Michael originally had 45 stickers, how many stickers does he have now after giving some away and buying more?
60
Doug is having a party at his house. He needs to order 6 pepperoni pizzas at $13 and 1 cheese pizza at $12. How much is a 20% tip?
18
It is a bird-watching season, and Marc is out bird watching. He wants to make sure the local bird populations haven't dwindled too much since the previous year. He notices there are triple the number of golden orioles but only half as many blue jays as golden orioles. There are four times as many cardinals as a tenth o...
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Peter makes $20.00/hour working at the Solid Steel Manufacturing Company. He works 3 shifts each week. He earns overtime pay for any shift where he works for more than 8 hours. His overtime pay rate is 1.5 times his regular salary. For each of his three shifts this week, he worked 10 hours, 12 hours, and 9 hours. Peter...
42
The Brick Club meets every month to create city replicas out of Lego bricks. The model kit is made of 14,000 bricks and members can customize projects to their preferences. Jared's Lego build for this month is 1 and 1/2 larger than the model. Isabel's Lego build uses 75% of the model's bricks. Nathan's build consists o...
72100
Ryan is trying to gain more muscle mass, he currently eats 50 grams of protein a day. His trainer recommends that he eats 2 grams of protein per pound of body weight, He weighs 150 pounds. How much protein intake does he need to add to his current intake to meet his trainer's recommendation?
250
Edwin likes to make fruit bowls with cuts of mango, strawberries, kiwis, and jicama. He buys 6 mangos, 4 cases of strawberries, and 1 jicama. 1 mango can make one mango bowl, ½ of a container of strawberries can make one strawberry bowl, and ¼ of a jicama can make one jicama bowl. How many fruit bowls can he make in to...
18
Veronica is planning a party. She wants to buy gummy bears, chocolate bars, and lollipops. Each bag of gummy bears costs $12, each chocolate bar costs $8, and each lollipop costs $2. She buys 5 bags of gummy bears, 10 chocolate bars, and 20 lollipops. She also buys a $30 party hat and pays with exact change. However, h...
146
Tickets for a concert cost $15 in advance and $22 at the door. There were 128 tickets sold in advance and 65 tickets sold at the door. How much revenue was there from ticket sales for the concert?
3350
Lee bought 6 shares of Delta stock at $40 per share. If he wants to make $24 from this trade, how much should Delta stock be per share when he sells?
44
Sisyphus has to roll a boulder to the top of a 1,000-meter hill. Halfway to the top, his boulder rolls back to the bottom. He rolls it ¾ of the way to the top, and then it falls to the bottom. He once again rolls it 1/5 of the way to the top before it rolls down. How many meters did he roll the ball in total?
1450
Betsy is excited about back-to-school shopping. Dee Dee's Discount store is having a fall sale. Betsy wants to buy each of the following items with the 40% discount: Jacket $80, Boots $75, Scarf $20, Jeans $50, Blouse $45, and Socks $10. How much can Betsy expect to pay in all, after the 40% discount is applied?
168
Howell is a ghost that haunts a vast mansion. His supervisor, the king of all ghosts, has assigned him a quota of people he needs to scare each week (21 people). Howell doesn't want to do the bare minimum, he wants to impress the ghost king by scaring twice as many people as he was asked to this week. If Howell can sca...
6
Bob wants to buy some clothes. He buys a shirt for $12. He buys pants that cost twice as much as the shirt. He also buys socks that cost half as much as the shirt. How much does he spend in total?
42
Mingyu, DK, and Joshua went to a restaurant. Mingyu ordered four plates of kimchi stew that cost $9 each and two plates of marinated crab for $17 each. Joshua added a plate of pork cutlets and twice the number of marinated crab Mingyu ordered. This batch of orders costs $150. If DK ordered two more plates of pork cutle...
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There is a very large room that has 4 tables, 1 sofa and 2 chairs that have 4 legs each. There are also 3 tables with 3 legs each, 1 table with 1 leg, and 1 rocking chair with 2 legs. How many legs of tables are there in the room?
26
Mia has a piggy bank with $45 in it. She decides to save $15 more every week. After saving for 4 weeks, she spends $30 on a new book. How much money is left in Mia's piggy bank?
75
Marge got a job so she can buy her first car. Her job pays $15/hr and she works there 30 hours a week. The car Marge wants is $3600. How many weeks does Marge need to work to buy the car?
8
Marsha is in charge of ordering food for the entire school. There are 100 6th graders, 3/4 as many 7th graders, and there are double the 8th graders as there are 7th graders. She is going to order sandwiches for each student. Each sandwich is $8.00. The sales tax is 8%. What will the sales tax be for the sandwiches?
208
Sam isn't very lucky, and unfortunately he has a habit of making bets with his friend and losing those bets. He bet $15 and lost, so rather than pay up, he bet 'double or nothing' and lost again, so then he owed his friend $30. After this loss, he bet 'double or nothing' 6 more times, and he lost every one of these add...
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A baker is preparing cookie boxes for a bake sale. Each box can hold 8 cookies. If the baker makes 15 boxes of chocolate chip cookies and triple that amount for oatmeal cookies, how many cookies did the baker make in total?
480
Pantu is paid $1 for solving one math problem correctly, and she is paid $0.5 for writing one short story. Pantu solves 27 math problems and writes 2 short stories. She saves 50% of her earning in her piggy bank. How much does she puts in her bank?
14
A group of students are collecting cans for a recycling drive. If they collect 4 cans per day, they will have 120 cans at the end of the month. They decide to increase their daily collection by 2 cans. How many cans will they have at the end of the month now?
180
During the new year, the price of plane tickets from New York to Los Angeles increased by 10%, the resulting price was 880 dollars. How much did plane tickets cost before the price increased?
800
Devon wants to buy a new set of truck floor mats. The mats cost $200.00 plus 6% sales tax. Devon pays with $300 cash. How much change will Devon get back?
88
Jayne is getting ready to purchase back-to-school supplies for her three children. They download the supply list from the school's website and start preparing for their shopping trip. The supply lists look like this: Michael: 6 glue sticks, 10 of pencils, 1 box of 12 markers, 2 spiral notebooks. Addison: 20 pencils, 3 ...
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Karina is a makeup artist and has to travel to separate cities for her appointments in the morning. She travels 100 miles to her first appointment, travels another 25 miles to her second appointment, and then follows the same route back home. Her fuel mileage is 25 miles per gallon and the cost of gas is $5 per gallon....
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John has 4 red marbles for every 3 blue marbles. He has 40 red marbles. How many blue marbles does he have?
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Dylan's Nursery had a plant sale this weekend. On Friday, they sold 12 plants. On Saturday, they sold 35 plants. On Sunday, they sold 28 plants. How many plants did the nursery sell per day (only including sales made on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday), on average?
25
The Eagle Rotary Club will host a fundraiser for a local high school baseball team. Bakers will donate fudge in the following amounts: Four hundred pounds of red velvet fudge will be priced at $4 per pound. Four hundred pounds of sugar cookie fudge will be priced at $3 per pound. If all of the fudge is sold during the ...
2800
Kayla works 6am to 2:30pm every day. She drinks one glass of seltzer every hour she works minus the one-hour break. She works a total of five days a week. She also has 12 days of time off every year. Factoring in the days off, how many glasses of seltzer does Kayla have at work in one year?
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Gwen wants to make matching friendship bracelets with her 3 friends Katy, Fiona, and Jolene. Each bracelet cannot have more than 18 beads total. Gwen wants to have each person's name on their respective bracelet using letter beads and pink colored beads. How many pink beads will Gwen need to make all of the bracelets?
53
Stephanie brought cookies to pass out to her classmates on Valentine's Day. After handing out 3/8 of the cookies, she had 40 cookies left. How many cookies did she start with?
64
Marisol plans to buy storage containers to store bags of flour for her bakery. She has six 4-lb bags of flour to store. She is going to use one 6lb storage container that she already has and will purchase multiple 6lb containers to match it. How many additional storage containers should Marisol buy to store all of the ...
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Audrey has 8 gummy bears. Her friend Sammi says that if Audrey gives her half of her gummy bears, she’ll pay her back double what she borrowed. If Audrey eats her half, then eats the gummy bears Sammi gives her as payment, how many did she eat total?
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Mary wants to make a fruit salad. She’d use 1/2 a pound of watermelon and half as much cantaloupe. She’d use 1 pound of stonefruit. For honeydew, she’d use 1/5 of the weight that she’d use for stonefruit. She’d add 1/5 of a pound of strawberries and then use half of this weight in grapes. Finally, she’d use 1/4 of a po...
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A class has 30 students. 30% of students in the class have only one sibling. If the teacher decides to invite all the siblings to the class one day, how many seats the class will need?
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Teacher Susie has 6 packs of markers with each pack containing 10 markers. Alan, Sid, and John are students in the class. Alan needs 6 markers for his project and Sid needs twice as many as Alan. John needs ⅔ the amount of markers Sid has. Three other students need 8 markers each and four other students need 10 markers...
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Cassandra is selling strawberries at $6 a box. During the 1st hour she sold 9 boxes, in the 2nd hour she sold 6 boxes, in the 3rd hour she sold 2 times the boxes as the 1st hour. In the 4th hour she sold 11 boxes worth of strawberries and in the 5th hour Cassandra sold 13 boxes. How much money did Cassandra make after ...
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A family buys amusement park tickets for their 5 children (ages 10, 8, 6, 4, and 2). They buy a pack of 150 tickets. The 3 big kids ride their favorite roller coaster for 9 tickets each. The 2 little kids then take a turn and ride their favorite train ride for 3 tickets each. The big kids then head over to the haunted ...
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Eddie purchases a pack of 40 6.4 fl-oz bottles for $10 a pack every week. His apartment offers a water delivery service that delivers 2 gallons of water to his door every week for $15 a week. How much money, in dollars, would he save buying water bottles versus the water delivery service in one year?
260
Michael wants to calculate the average of how much he eats out each month. February he ate out $650, March $780, and in April he spent $460. What is his average for the 3 months?
630
A group of friends went out to eat to celebrate their friend Casey's birthday. They decided that they would all split the cost of Casey's meal, her presents, her flowers, and her cake. They would split each of those things each 4 ways. They then would each pay for whatever food they ate themselves, plus a reasonable ti...
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Linda is making gift bags for a party. She wants to put an equal number of candies in each bag. She has 150 candies and wants to make 5 bags, but decides to keep 20 candies for herself. Then, a friend contributes five more candies for the gift bags. How many candies will each bag contain?
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