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GSM8K train #5101 · Arithmetic · Arithmetic word problems

The lights in Malcolm’s house are flickering, and he hopes that replacing…

The lights in Malcolm’s house are flickering, and he hopes that replacing all of his white lights with colored lights will make it stop. He buys 12 red lights, 3 times as many blue lights, and 6 green lights. If he still has 5 colored lights left to buy, how many white lights did Malcolm have initially?

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GSM8K — Grade School Math 8K (Cobbe et al., OpenAI, 2021) · train #5101

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