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Three boys agree to divide a bag of marbles in the following manner. The first boy takes one more than half the marbles. The second takes a third of the number remaining. The third boy finds that he is left with twice as many marbles as the second boy. The original number of marbles (a) is 8 or 38       (b) is 14 or 32 (c) is 20 or 26     (d) Cannot be determined from the given data

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