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A yellow marble, a green marble, a red marble, a blue marble and a brown marble are dropped into an empty jar in the order given. The process is repeated until there are 88 marbles in the jar. How many of the marbles are red?

A 15
B 16
C 17
D 18
E 20

Answer 1

18

Explanation:

Because 85 divided by 5 is 17 add 1 for the missing 3 boom 18.

Answer 2

D) 18 marbles will be red

Explanation:

We know that the order is Yellow, green, red, blue, brown due to it saying “in the order given”

We can say that every time 1 of each marble of these colors are dropped in we can make that a set and since and we know there are 5 marbles a set.

Now we know there are 88 marbles so we divide

88/5= 17 Remainder: 3

Now 17 sets so we know there are at least 17 of each marble In the jar

Now the remainder of 3

Following the order

1 would go into yello, 1 to green, and the last one to red

So thats an extra plus 1

Now we have

Yellow: 17+1=18

Green: 17+1=18

Red: 17+1=18

Blue: 17

Brown: 17

So there are 18 red marbles

CHECK:

We add all the final results and see if we get 88

18*3 (becuase there are 3, 18s)

18*3+17*2 (same for 17s, ther are 2 17s)

18*3=54

17*2=34

54+34=88

So its true