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[SIZE=2]A person who picks up cigarette butts from the streets finds that he can roll a new cigarette from the tobacco of seven butts. One Saturday he picks up forty-nine butts and on the Sunday decides to smoke all the cigarettes he can make from them. How many cigarettes did he smoke?
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He makes 7 cigarettes and smokes those which creates 7 more butts so he can make one more. Thus he smokes 8
