Jenson had an equal number of strawberry wafers, blueberry wafers and chocolate wafers. After he ate 44 strawberry wafers, some blueberry wafers and chocolate wafers, there were 58 wafers left. The number of blueberry wafers he ate was thrice the number of chocolate wafers he ate. The number of blueberry wafers left was 17 more than the number of strawberry wafers left. How many strawberry wafers were there at first?

	Strawberry wafers	Blueberry wafers	Chocolate wafers	Total wafers
Before	1 p + 44	1 p + 3 u + 17	1 p + 3 u + 17
Change	- 44	- 3 u	- 1 u
After	1 p	1 p + 17	1 p + 17 + 1 u	58

Number of blueberry wafers and strawberry wafers was equal at first.

1 p + 3 u + 17 = 1 p + 44
3 u = 44 - 17
3 u = 27

1 u = 27 ÷ 3 = 9

Total number of wafers in the end
= 1 p + 1 p + 17 + 1 p + 17 + 9
= 1 p + 1 p + 1 p + 17 + 17 + 9
= 3 p + 43

3 p + 43 = 58
3 p = 58 - 43
3 p = 15

1 p = 15 ÷ 3 = 5

Number of strawberry wafers at first
= 1 p + 44
= 5 + 44
= 49

Answer(s): 49