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Solution to Lots of Lollies

At first, I noticed that the number of lollies that I was splitting had to be be an odd number or there would not have been anything left over. So, I made this table. The blue shows the number of lollies that Francis and Rishi share and the purple shows the lollies that Frances, Rishi, Kishan, Haley and Paul share. I tried a few different odd numbers and found that only a total of 7 lollies worked. Then I saw that 17 also works. Then I thought of the 100s chart and the 7s column. All the numbers in that column would work. I checked with a big number like 87 and it worked.