Bag of peanuts
Joe eats 1/3 of a bag of peanuts, Mark eats 1/4 of the remaining peanuts, Alvin eats 1/2 of what remains after Mark, Peter eats 10 peanuts, and 71 peanuts are left. How many peanuts were in the bag originally?
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