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Cookies and jellybeans — Mei and Wei trade

Mei bought some cookies and gave half of them to Wei. Wei bought some jellybeans and gave half of them to Mei. Mei ate 8 jellybeans and Wei ate 12 cookies. The ratio of Mei's jellybeans to cookies becomes 1:6 and the ratio of Wei's jellybeans to cookies becomes 1:4. How many jellybeans did Wei buy?

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