Mallory has 535 email messages in her inbox she sorts them evenly among folders labeled family friends work school an recipes if each folder began with 25 messages how many messages are in each folder now?

107. There is 5 folders and each had 25. Add them up and then you will get 125. Subtract that from 535 and you will get 410. Then divide 410 by 5 and you will get 82. Then add 82 plus 25 and your final answer is 107.

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