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Answer:
You have to take 15 pens to get at least one red pencil.
Step-by-step explanation:
If there were one red and 6 green pens, there would be more red than green pens.
If there were 3 or more blue and thus 18 or more green pens, the number of pens would be over 20.
So there must be 2 blue, 12 green and thus 6 red pencils. So you have to take at least 15 pens to be sure that you got a red one.
One can solve this by first using order of operations, and then combining like terms.
First is parenthesis
9x + 2x(9) - 2(9x)
Now we do the multiplication
9x + 18x - 18x
Now we combine like terms
9x
