Bag of peanuts
Joe eats 1/3 of a bag of peanuts, Mark eats 1/4 of the remaining in the bag of peanuts, Alvin eats 1/2 of the remaining bag of peanuts, Peter eats ten peanuts, and there are 71 peanuts left. Hon many peanuts were in the bags?
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