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GSM8K train #4260 · Arithmetic · Arithmetic word problems

A mother buys a box of sweets

A mother buys a box of sweets. She kept 1/3 of the sweets and divided the rest between her 3 children. The eldest got 8 sweets while the youngest got half as many. If there are 27 pieces of sweets in the box, how many sweets did the second child gets?

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GSM8K — Grade School Math 8K (Cobbe et al., OpenAI, 2021) · train #4260

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