Mary had ten pieces of paper.Some of them were squares, and the rest were triangles.
She cut three squares diagonally from corner to corner. She then found that the total number of vertices of the 13 pieces of paper was 42.
How many triangles did she have before making the cuts?
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8
7
6
5
4
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