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Jack's mother gave him 50 chocolates to give to his friends at his birthday party. He gave 3 chocolates to each of his friends and still had 2chocolates left. Write an equation showing how many friends
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Jack's mother gave him 50 chocolates to give to his friends at his birthday party. He gave 3 chocolates to each of his friends and still had 2chocolates left. Write an equation showing how many friends were at the party.

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to start off, 50 - 2 is 48, to account for the chocolates he had left. 48 divided by 3 is 16, so Jack has 16 friends at the party!!
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