Question 894560

In the latest class reunion of HS '70, a certain number of succesful alumni promised to donate equally for a new school project amounting to $240 000.00. Four of them failed to provide the certain amount of money. Hence, each of the remaining alumni had to pay $3 000.00 more to produce the sum. How many alumni had promised to pay originally?
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