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The owner of a local jewellery store hired three watchmen to guard…

The owner of a local jewellery store hired three watchmen to guard his diamonds, but a thief still got in and stole some diamonds. On the way out, the thief met each watchman, one at a time. To each he gave 1/2 of the diamonds he had then, and 2 more besides. He escaped with one diamond. How many did he steal originally?

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AQuA-RAT — Algebra Question Answering with Rationales (Ling et al., DeepMind, 2017) · train #13399

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