Three piles
100 kg of sugar we divide into three piles. The first pile is small. If we added to the second 2 kg of sugar, it would have 25% more sugar than the first pile. If we add 3 kg of sugar to the third pile, it would have 20% more sugar than the 2nd pile. How many kilograms of sugar are on each pile?
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