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There is a variant of this puzzle here, but it's not quite the same. If I missed it in a search then my bad.

There is a bum who loves cigars, but unfortunately he can't afford to buy any. He realizes though that people rarely finish their cigars. He finds out that on average there is 1/5 of a cigar remaining when a person throws it away. Therefore he can make 1 cigar if he finds five cigar butts. Yesterday the bum had a very lucky day and found 25 cigar butts. How many cigars was he able to make?

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I get 6 because he uses 25 butts to make 5 cigars for himself. And then he uses his 5 butts from the 5 he just smoked to make one more. So 6

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