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1950 AHSME Problems/Problem 30

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Problem

From a group of boys and girls, $15$ girls leave. There are then left two boys for each girl. After this $45$ boys leave. There are then $5$ girls for each boy. The number of girls in the beginning was:

$\textbf{(A)}\ 40 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 43 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 29 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 50 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ \text{None of these}$

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