Problema Solution
After eating 25% of jelly beans Brett had 72 left. How many jelly beans did Brett have originally?
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Let 'x' represent the number of jelly beans that Brett had originally.
x - 0.25x = 72
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x = 96 jelly beans
Originally Brett had 96 jelly beans.