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A bag had some brown pencils and white pencils in the ratio of 5 : 2. Gwen removed 37 brown pencils and put another 14 white pencils into the bag. There is now 25% as many brown pencils as white pencils in the bag. How many brown pencils were in the bag at first?
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A bag had some brown pencils and white pencils in the ratio of 5 : 2. Gwen removed 37 brown pencils and put another 14 white pencils into the bag. There is now 25% as many brown pencils as white pencils in the bag. How many brown pencils were in the bag at first?