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A bag contains purple marbles and blue marbles, 26 in total. The number of purple

marbles is 4 less than 2 times the number of blue marbles. How many purple marbles
are there?
purple marbles
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User TRomesh
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Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:26 divided by 2 = 18

purple = 18

blue=18

purple = 18-4 = 14

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