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Chocolate Box Problem

Lila has a box of chocolates. She gives away 1/4 of the chocolates to her friend, and then she eats 30% of the remaining chocolates. If she has 42 chocolates left after eating, how many chocolates were in the box originally?

The puzzle of the missing marbles

Tom had a bag of marbles. He gave half of his marbles to his friend Jerry. Then, he gave one-third of what was left to his sister Anna. After that, he was left with 10 marbles. How many marbles did Tom have initially?