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Ms. Peters has 36 red, blue, and green markers. She has an equal number ofeach color of marker. She arranges the red markers in 2 equal groups. Howmany red markers are in each group?186912

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Total number of markers: 36

She has an equal number of each color of marker. Given that there are 3 colors, there are 36/3 = 12 red markers.

She arranges the red markers in 2 equal groups. Then, each group has 12/2 = 6 red markers

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