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In sakura’s garden, for every 5 red flowers, there are 10 yellow flowers. There are a total of 75 yellow and red flowers in her garden. How many ref flowers are in Sakura’s garden?

User Hari Reddy
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The first thing we must do for this case is to define variables.
We have then:
x: number of red flowers
y: number of yellow flowers.
We write the system of equations:
x + y = 75
y = 2x
Solving the system we have:
x = 25
y = 50
Answer:
there are 25 red flowers in Sakura's garden
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