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Luna Ray has five orange picks and no green picks. You add some green picks so 1 in every 3 picks is orange. How many picks are there now?
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Luna Ray has five orange picks and no green picks. You add some green picks so 1 in every 3 picks is orange. How many picks are there now?

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User Chris Nicola
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This means that 1/3 of the total amount of picks now are orange. You start with 5 orange pics so 1/3=5/15. Therefore there are now 15 picks in total.
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