Sam the Squirrel found a basket of pine cones one morning

Sam the Squirrel found a basket of pine cones one morning. He decided that every day he would double the number of pine cones in the basket in the morning and eat 2 pine cones out of the basket in the afternoon. At the end of the third day, there were 34 pine cones in the basket. How many pine cones were in the basket when Sam the Squirrel found it?

AQuA-RAT — Algebra Question Answering with Rationales (Ling et al., DeepMind, 2017) · train #31829