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zaharov [31]
3 years ago
6

A bag contains purple marbles and white marbles, 68 in total. The number of purple marbles is 4 less than 5 times the number of

white marbles. How many purple marbles are there?
Mathematics
1 answer:
galina1969 [7]3 years ago
3 0

Answer: 56 purple marbles.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let be "p" the number of purple marbles in the bag and "w" the number of white marbles in the bag.

You can set up the following System of equations:

\left \{ {{p+w=68} \atop {p=5w-4}} \right.

You can use the Substitution method to solve the System of equations. The steps are shown below:

1. You need to substitute the second equation into the first equation:

(5w-4)+w=68

2. Now you must solve for "w":

5w-4+w=68\\\\6w-4=68\\\\6w=68+4\\\\6w=72\\\\w=\frac{72}{6}\\\\w=12

3. Substitute the value of "w" into second original equation and then evaluate in order to find the value "p":

p=5(12)-4\\\\p=60-4\\\\p=56

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