Problema Solution
there are 7 green marbles in a small bucket that has 49 marbles altogether. latifah pours all the marbles into a large bucket and then adds some more green marbles to the larger bucket so that three-fifths of the marbles in the large bucket are green. how many green marbles did latifah add to the large bucket
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Let 'x' represent the number of green marbles that Latifah added to the large bucket.
7 + x = (3/5)(49 + x)
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x = 56 green marbles
Latifah added 56 marbles to the large bucket.