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A bag of marbles contains only purple and yellow marbles. The bag has three times as many yellow marbles as purple. The bag contains 164 total marbles. Write an equation or system of equations to find
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A bag of marbles contains only purple and yellow marbles. The bag has three times as many yellow marbles as purple. The bag contains 164 total marbles. Write an equation or system of equations to find out how many of each color is in the bag.

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there are 41 purple marbles, and 123 yellow marbles
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