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A group of children are bobbing for apples at a birthday party. There are 5 apples in the bucket, but someone also snuck 5 oranges in. Because the kids all love probability, they decide to take apples out until there is a 3/8 chance of randomly pulling out an apple. How many apples do they pull out?
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