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Middle School Madness - September 21, 2020
Today is the first day of a new school year. You walk into your new classroom to see a new group of classmates. After everyone arrives, you realize there are more girls than boys in your class. The total number of students is an even number. Seventeen students brought their lunch to school. There are 6 more girls than boys in the class. The total number of students is less than 50 but the total number of students is not divisible by 5. If you added the digits together of the total number of students, you would get a two-digit sum. By the way, when Kyle and Lana went home after lunch, the total number of students remaining was a multiple of 13. How many kids in your class did not bring their lunch to school?
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