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Carlos has 2,175 marbles in his collection . Emily has 1833 marbles in her collection . Carlos says that he has about 1,000 more marbles than Emily. Is Carlos correct .

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Carlos is wrong since when subtracted 2175 from 1833 you get 342 so that's about one third of what he said.
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