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Mr. Marcus is splitting a huge new pack of colored pencils equally among his 25 students. After splitting the pencils he has 4 left. If there were 429 pencils to begin with, how many did each student receive? Give me the equation

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Answer:

Each student got 17 pencils

Explanation:

(429-5)/25=x

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