47. Over the past five years, 27 collective farmers have been awarded. Moreover, in each subsequent year, more were awarded than in the previous year. In the last year, three times as many were awarded as in the first year. How many collective farmers were awarded in the third year?
47. If in the first year $x$ collective farm workers are awarded, then in the last year it is $3x$, and for these two years it is $4x$. The values $x=1$ and $x=2$ do not satisfy the condition, as in the second, third, and fourth years, 23 (27-4=23) and 19 (27-8=19) would be awarded, which does not meet the condition that "in each subsequent year, more were awarded than in the previous year." Let's try $x=3$. In this case, in the first year, 3 collective farm workers were awarded, and in the fifth year, 9. In the remaining three years, 15 collective farm workers were awarded. Since $15=4+5+6$, in the third year, 5 collective farm workers were awarded ( $3<4<5<6<9$ ).