A bag of jellybeans contains 8 black beans and 2 more green beans. It also contains 1 less orange bean than green beans. How many jellybeans are there in the bag?
Thoughts? Step-by-step reasoning:
There are 8 + 2 = 10 green beans. There are 10 - 1 = 9 orange beans. There are 8 black + 10 green + 9 orange = 27 jelly beans.
Thus, the answer is 27.