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Dolores bought some new pillows she bought twice as many green pillows as blue pillows and one less red pillow then green pillows she bought a total of nine pillows how many pills of each color did she buy

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Assuming the pillows come in three colors: blue, green and red, we have:

Number of blue pillows = x

Number of green pillows = y

Number of red pillows: z

y = 2x

z = y - 1

x + y + z = 9

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x = 2 blue pillows

y = 4 green pillows

z = 3 red pillows

Dolores bought two blue, four green and three red pillows.