Bag Night Owl

Please help on math problem?

A family went to a camping trip and they brought many bags of peanuts with them. The first night a raccoon ate 5 of the bags of peanuts the family brought. The next day the family ate one-third of the remaining bags. That night a beaver ate two of the bags. The next day the family consumed one-fourth of the remaining bags for breakfast. Then they took a boat trip and they had to feed one bag of peanuts to each of the 5 dogs to get them to quiet down. That night an elephant came to the camp and ate four bags. The next day each member of the family ate one-ninth of the remaining bags. That night a owl ate half of the remaining bags. The next day there were only 4 bags left. The family couldn't decide how to split them among the 5 of them, so they fed them to the ducks. how many bags of peanuts did the family bring with them on the camping trip.

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Suppose the family started with x bags.
After the first night, they have x-5.
The next day, they ate one-third of that, leaving them with 2/3*(x-5) = 2x/3 - 10/3
That night a beaver ate 2, so then they have 2x/3 - 10/3 - 2 = 2x/3 - 16/3
The next day the family ate one-fourth of the remaining bags, leaving them with 3/4*(2x/3 - 16/3) = x/2 - 4
Then they took a boat trip and fed 5 bags to the dogs, leaving them with x/2 - 4 - 5 = x/2 - 9
That night an elephant came to the camp and ate 4 bags, leaving them with x/2 - 9 - 4 = x/2 - 13
The next day EACH member of the family ate one-ninth of the remaining bags. Since there are 5 family members (mentioned in the last sentence), they therefore ate five-ninths of the remaining bags, leaving them with (4/9)*(x/2-13) = 2x/9 - 52/9
Then an owl ate half of those, so now they have: x/9 - 26/9 = 4
Therefore x - 26 = 36
x = 62

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