Bag of Candy
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Three children share a box of candy between them. Linda gets three times as many peppermints as Shannon, who gets 5 more licorice sticks than Yvette. Yvette gets three times as many licorice sticks as Linda, and half as many peppermints as Linda and Shannon combined. If Shannon got two more licorice sticks than peppermints, and there are 98 candies in all, how many peppermints were there?
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