Problema Solution

You have a bag of marbles. There are twice as many blue marbles as red marbles. There are 4 less green marbles than red marbles. If there are 28 marbles in the bag, haw many of each marble is in the bag? Use a 5 step solution.

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x - blue 

y - red

z - green

x + y + z =28

x =2y

y = z - 4

z = y + 4

2y + y + y + 4 = 28

4y = 24

y = 6

x = 12

z = 10