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Nico bought a bag of jelly beans. He ate 15 jelly beans and then gave one-third of the remaining jelly beans to his brother. If he gave 25 jelly beans to his brother, how many jelly beans, j, were in the bag that Nico bought?

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25*3+15=90 jelly beans were in a bag
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90 jellybeans were bought
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