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luna ray has 5 orange picks and no green picks. You add some green picks so 1 in every 3 pick is orange. How many picks are there now?
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luna ray has 5 orange picks and no green picks. You add some green picks so 1 in every 3 pick is orange. How many picks are there now?

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1/3 = 5/15.
Thus, adding 10 green picks will give us 15 picks in total, and the ratio between orange picks to overall picks is 1 in 3, thus we have 15 picks in total now.
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