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A bag contains only red and blue marbles. Yasmine takes one marble at random from the bag. The probability that she takes a red marble is 1 in 5. Yasmine returns the marble to the bag and adds five more red marbles to the bag. The probability that she takes one red marble at random is now 1 in 3. How many red marbles were originally in the bag?

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the probability of taking a red marble is 1 in 5 . But if she takes at random it would bee 1 in 3 because there are 2 other colors in there.

Answer is 5 red marbles
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answer:

5 red marbles

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