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At a recent fishing tournament, Alex caught 7 times as many fish…

At a recent fishing tournament, Alex caught 7 times as many fish as Jacob. Jacob did not think that he had any chance of winning, but Alex became overconfident and knocked over his bucket of fish, losing 23 fish back to the lake. If Jacob had 8 fish at the beginning, how many more fish does he need to catch to beat Alex by just 1 fish?

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GSM8K — Grade School Math 8K (Cobbe et al., OpenAI, 2021) · train #6598

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