In each of these sentences, can you replace the missing number.
The number is written as a word (e.g. five, twenty-four, thirty-three), and each sentence is correct after the replacement.
This sentence contains {?} X.
Slightly trickier, this sentence contains {?} R's.
Even trickier, this sentence contains precisely {?} E's.
This sentence has exactly {?} letters.
This sentence, hopefully, contains {?} letters, one hyphen, five commas, and four Y's.
To finish, if this sentence had a T removed, it would contain {?} letters!
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This sentence contains one X.
Slightly trickier, this sentence contains four R's.
Even trickier, this sentence contains precisely ten E's.
This sentence has exactly thirty-nine letters.
This sentence, hopefully, contains seventy-five letters, one hyphen, five commas, and four Y's.
To finish, if this sentence had a T removed, it would contain sixty-two letters!
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