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A.
A bag has 18 marbles of three different colours.
There are twice as many red marbles as blue
ones.
There are two fewer green marbles than blue ones.
Form an equation to model this situation, and solve
to determine the number of each color marble in
the bag.


B.
The perimeter of a large triangle is 237 cm.
The lengths of the three sides are consecutive
integers, Form an equation to model this situation,
and solve to find the lengths of the three sides.

User Sasho
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Answer:

5 blue marbles

10 Red marbles

3 Green marbles

Explanation:

5 times 2 = 10

then 5-2 =3

Add 5+10+3

=18 Marbles in total

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