Riddle: How many oranges

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Joe bought a bag of oranges on Monday, and ate a third of them. On Tuesday he ate half of the remaining oranges. On Wednesday he looked in the bag to find he only had two oranges left. How many oranges were originally in the bag?

He had 6 oranges to start with, and ate 2 the first day and 2 the second day.