document.write( "Question 1185291: Alex, Benjamin and Caris shared some pancakes. Caris took $\"3%2F4\"$ of the
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Alex, Benjamin and Caris shared some pancakes. Caris took $\"3%2F4\"$ of the
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Let original number of pancakes be P\r\n" );
document.write( "After Caris took  of original number of pancakes, plus  of a pancake,  pancakes were left\r\n" );
document.write( "After Benjamin took  of the remaining number of pancakes, plus  of a pancake,  were left\r\n" );
document.write( "With 6 pancakes remaining in the end, we get: \r\n" );
document.write( "P - 5 = 96 ------ Cross-multiplying\r\n" );
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document.write( "Original number of pancakes, or \r\n" );
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