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Jerry bought 48 firecrackers for the 4th of July

Jerry bought 48 firecrackers for the 4th of July. A police officer discovered and confiscated 12 of them. 1/6 of the remaining ones were defective. If Jerry set off half the good firecrackers, how many firecrackers did he set off?

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GSM8K — Grade School Math 8K (Cobbe et al., OpenAI, 2021) · train #3832

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