In a queue
There are cars and trucks in a queue in front of a toll gate. A truck is three times longer than a car. Calculate how many cars are in the queue ahead of the car that has just arrived, given that one of them is a truck, which accounts for one eighth of the total queue length ahead of the newly arrived car.
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