Allyson has 60 purple buttons, 36 black buttons, and 24 green buttons. She wants to put all of the buttons in bins. She wants ea
ch bin to have only one color and all bins to have the same number of buttons. How many buttons can Allyson put in one bin?
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Answer:
The numbers are 9, 19 and 76.
Step-by-step explanation:
Let's take the second number and make it a variable, like x. Now let's find all the other numbers in terms of x.
The first number in terms of x:
The second number in terms of x:
If we add them all up, these 3 numbers in terms of x must be equal to 104, so:
Now that we know the second number, we can find the other numbers since we already figured out their values in terms of x:
The first number is 9, second number 19 and the third number 76.
