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Azul has 4 green picks and no orange picks. You add only orange picks so 2 in every 3 picks are orange. How many picks are there.

User Shakari
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If 2/3 are orange, then 1/3 are green.

1/3 = green/total = 4/total
total = 4/(1/3) = 12

There are 12 picks.
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