There are 27 red or blue marbles in the bag. The number of red marbles is 5 less than 3 times of the blue marbles. How many red
marbles are in the bag? How many blue marbles are in the bag?
2 answers:
Let
x--------> The number of red marbles
y--------> The number of blue marbles
we know that
equation
equation
equate equation and equation
therefore
the answer is
The number of red marbles is
The number of blue marbles is
27=3x-5+x
27+5=4x-5+5
4x=32
4x/4=32/4
x=8
There are 8 blue marbles and 19 red marbles.
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